Quotes and Sayings About Serenity
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The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.
-- Abram L. Sachar -
Ultimate serenity is the coming to rest of all ways of taking things, the repose of named things; no truth has been taught by a Buddha for anyone, anywhere.
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna -
There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise,
-- Alain Badiou -
You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.
-- Albert Ellis -
Even under a harsh God-and I do not believe in a harsh God-one is entitled to serenity in old age.
-- Albert Outler -
I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos.
-- Alexis Knapp -
Bush has said something new. He said, "If I will be president again, I will be a man of peace and serenity." May the Lord curse the liars, wherever they may be.
-- Ali Meshkini -
I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings.
-- Ann Jillian -
"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."
-- Anthony de Mello -
It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
-- Auguste Rodin -
Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.
-- Ayn Rand -
She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.
-- Ayn Rand -
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.
-- Blaise Cendrars -
I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.
-- Caspar David Friedrich -
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.
-- Charles Gounod -
How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?
-- Christopher Fry -
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.
-- David Guterson -
Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.
-- Desire-Joseph Mercier -
I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.
-- Dirk Benedict -
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.
-- Douglas Pagels -
I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.
-- Dusty Springfield -
You have to be still for a moment to even notice that there is silence outside.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.
-- Edna Ferber -
Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen in a painting's line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? - and is the true effect of a good painting on the spectator one that makes at once for repose and energy, calmness and intensity, serenity and stir?
-- Eli Siegel -
Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.
-- Elle Macpherson -
The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, and Serenity.
-- Emily Post -
Serenity and inner beauty come when we wait upon God. "Waiting" like that is not merely wasting time.
-- Eva Burrows
