Serenity Quotes

You must sacrifice every thought, every ideology for the good of the nation and for the serenity of our fatherhood.

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.

The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity.

She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.

The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.

We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now

The key to serenity is trusting that the universe has your back.

All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.

Silence is so accurate.

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.

Pray with perseverance, with faith, with calmness and serenity.

What happens with your sex energy depends on how you use it. What it can become does not depend on it alone, but on your understanding and on how you live your life. Have you not observed that it becomes brahmacharya, the state of celibacy when it is transformed? bramhacharya is not hostile to passion; brahmacharya is the purification, the transcendence, the sublimation of passion. In the same way, the energy that manifests itself in violence becomes peace, serenity and tranquility. It is only a question of transformation.

The dimension that counts for the creative person is the space he creates within himself. This inner space is closer to the infinite than the other, and it is the privilege of the balanced mind... and the search for an equilibrium is essential - to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.

The conscious principle in this design has been to achieve forms that could create experiences, and that could at the same time welcome everyone's experiences with the serenity of an effortless development.

Human Rights for everyone is the necessary foundation upon which all of us may build a world where everybody may live in peace and serenity and plenty.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Peace is the simplicity of heart, serenity of mind, tranquility of soul, the bond of love.

There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?

Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure as he is inflated by success. He is able to fully live his experiences in the context of a vast and profound serenity, since he understands that experiences are ephemeral and that it is useless to cling to them.

Knowing what you know, be serene also, like a mountain; and do not be distressed by misfortune. Knowledge without serenity is an unlit candle; together they are honey-comb; honey without wax is a noble thing; wax without honey is only fit for burning.

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, and Serenity.

I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists between them and myself. When one attains this harmony, one reaches a sort of intellectual non-existence, what I can only describe as a sense of peace, which makes everything possible and right. Life then becomes a perpetual revelation. That is true poetry.

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.

All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.

Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.

Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.

Do your best and then relax.

Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.

Keep inviolate an area of light and peace within you.

Nothing wastes more energy than worrying. The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it becomes. Don't take life too seriously. Live a life full of serenity, not of regrets.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often

Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world.

Everything passes, nothing remains. Understand this, loosen your grip and fine serenity.

I am freeing myself from security, sensation and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life and thus destroy my serenity and keeps me from loving myself and others.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all.

I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!

I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.

Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.

If others hurt you, let the injury go. This is your test. If you let it go, you will find serenity.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy