100+ Serenity Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Marc Chagall, Curt Valentin Gallery (New York), Curt Valentin Gallery (1952). “Marc Chagall, sculpture, ceramics, etchings for the fables of La Fontaine”

topic: Reality, Serenity, World

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

- Marcel Duchamp

topic: Artist, Serenity, Monk, Ordination

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.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Live Life, Past, Serenity

The very secret of life for mewas to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. I had picked a life that dealt with excitement, tragedy, mass calamities, human triumphs and suffering. To throw my whole self into recording and attempting to understand these things, I needed an inner serenity as a kind of balance.

- Margaret Bourke-White

topic: Self, Rushing, Serenity

Silence is so accurate.

- Mark Rothko

topic: Serenity, Silence, Favourite

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.

- Mark Tobey

topic: Space, Creative, Serenity

Punctuality or the lack thereof oftentimes is the only introduction one will ever have to new groups and friends. Serenity and poise are not the companions of those who lack the courtesy and judgment to be on time.

- Marvin J. Ashton

topic: Serenity, Groups, Judgment

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.

- Matthieu Ricard

source: Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.26, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Broken, Profound, Serenity

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.

- Mel Gibson

topic: Serenity, Pieces, Littles

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.

- Michael Douglas

topic: Rights, Serenity, World, Peace And Serenity, Human Rights Day

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?

- Michael Morpurgo

topic: Eye, Men, Serenity, War Horse, Regal

And it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a schoolteacher in some urban location. But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by.

- Michael Ondaatje

topic: Book, Serenity, Choices

Never have I experienced a serenity and sweetness of disposition as with my Chocolate Lab.

- Mortimer Zuckerman

topic: Dog, Serenity, Chocolate

This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one's own, one's certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship ...

- Muriel Barbery

topic: Self, Serenity, Solitude, Fluency

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.

- Nadine Gordimer

topic: Peace, Tree, Serenity, Grasslands, Greening

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.

- Nate Silver

source: Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.309, Penguin

topic: Differences, Self, Serenity, Wisdom To Know The Difference

Develop serenity and quiet attitudes through your conversation. Depending upon the words we use and the tone in which we use them, we can talk ourselves into being nervous, high-strung, and upset. By our speech, we can also achieve quiet reactions. Talk peaceful to be peaceful.

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Inspirational, Attitude, Serenity, Peacefulness, High Strung

No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.

- Og Mandino

topic: Son, Serenity, Mind

Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts.

- Paul Brunton

topic: Character, Meditation, Serenity

So many things which once had distressed or revolted him â€” the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move â€” all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

topic: Moving, Reality, Serenity, Protectiveness, Untouchables

Christians know how to face difficulties, trials and defeat with serenity and hope in the Lord.

- Pope Francis

topic: Christian, Serenity, Faces

The aesthetic value of creation cannot be overlooked. Our very contact with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity. The Bible speaks again and again of the goodness and beauty of creation, which is called to glorify God.

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Serenity, Magnificence, Speak, Peace And Serenity, Impart

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

- Pythagoras

topic: Serenity, Silence, Mind

"Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.

- Rajneesh

topic: Serenity, Meditation, Flavor

There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago.

- Ray Stannard Baker

topic: Pain, Long, Serenity

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

- Reinhold Niebuhr

topic: Men, Serenity, Grace

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

topic: Giving, Serenity, Grace

I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.

- Robert Foster Bennett

topic: War, Believe, Serenity

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.

- Robert M. Pirsig

topic: Reflection, Serenity, Mind, Zen Motorcycle Maintenance, Peace And Serenity

Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight.

- Saigyō

topic: Moon, Sight, Serenity

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.

- Sanai

topic: Knowledge, Knowing, Serenity

Today is not the day you quit. Nor is it the day you cry. Today you know that you have all the passion and wisdom to find that quiet center of solace, serenity and strength necessary to create and sustain an authentic life.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

topic: Inspirational, Passion, Serenity, Authentic Life

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

- Simone Weil

topic: Struggle, Grief, Serenity

What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some kind of contribution.

- Stephen Schwartz

topic: Giving, Serenity, Contentment

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

- Surya Das

topic: Serenity, Fine, Remains

We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil.

- Swami Satchidananda

topic: Serenity, Calamity, Midst

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

- Sylvia Kristel

topic: Serenity, Trying, Innocence

I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively. They need to ask themselves, What does the ideal room look like? Is there music? Is there silence? Is there chaos outside or is there serenity outside? What do I need in order to release my imagination?

- Toni Morrison

topic: Order, Imagination, Serenity

Life has its rhythm and we have ours. They're designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity.

- Victoria Moran

topic: Acceptance, Serenity, Life Is, Coexist

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

- Washington Irving

topic: Serenity, Mind, Produce, Great Fishing, Trout Fishing

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

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Hurt, Serenity, Let It Go

Radiate an energy of serenity and peace so that you have an uplifting effect on those you come into contact with.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Uplifting, Spiritual, Serenity, Self Help

Our challenge is to face up heroically to the world as it is and do our very best to make the most of our lives. To strive to live each day with serenity and courage.

- Wilferd Peterson

topic: Serenity, Challenges, Each Day, Live Each Day

Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.

- William John Locke

source: William John Locke (1906). “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel”

topic: Stars, Fire, Serenity, Fire Of Love

I started using drugs when I was thirteen. By twenty-one, I was shooting up coke and heroin. In my early twenties, I unconsciously used asana to make the "getter" inside me stronger. Sure, I got a hit of the yoga high - serenity at the end of class - but how sustainable is that if you're holding grudges against yourself or others?

- Angel Grant

topic: Yoga, Class, Serenity, Shooting Up, Holding Grudges

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

- Austin O'Malley

topic: Patience, Serenity, Analogue

You must attain a neurological and biological serenity in chaos. You cannot let yourself be sabotaged by adrenaline.

- Mac O'Grady

topic: Golf, Serenity, Chaos

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!

- Sean O'Casey

topic: Stars, Hair, Serenity

Cross over children. All are welcome. All welcome. Go into the Light. There is peace and serenity in the Light.

- Zelda Rubinstein

topic: Children, Light, Serenity, Peace And Serenity

I believe Stoicism can help anyone who takes it seriously and begins to practice it. It will help them flourish because it will provide them with a compass for navigating life, a general, flexible, framework to set priorities, and a set of techniques to achieve serenity and equanimity.

- Massimo Pigliucci

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Believe, Priorities, Serenity, Stoicism

I gained an inner peace, the serenity of a prisoner, so to speak.

- Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Serenity, Inner Peace, Speak

But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still Serenities unthawed and chill.

- Francis Thompson

source: Francis Thompson (2002). “Poems of Francis Thompson”, p.13, A&C Black

topic: Serenity, Gold, Mold

Before I was abducted, I think that happiness was related to success. Nowadays happiness is related, for me, to rest, peace, serenity.

- Ingrid Betancourt

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Thinking, Serenity, Related

The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

topic: Gratitude, Men, Serenity

Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's - the spirit of compassion, of universal love, even of suffering - a spirit that knows no age, that belongs to all ages.

- Leonard Bernstein

topic: Compassion, Serenity, Suffering, Great Lyric, Universal Love

Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and let’s face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field – is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by almost anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good.

- Jasper Fforde

source: "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, July 19, 2001.

topic: Kindness, Evil, Serenity, Poisonous

In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.

- Federico Garcia Lorca

topic: Silence, Serenity, Apprenticeship

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

topic: Peace, People, Serenity, International Peace Day, Peace And Serenity

Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

topic: Peace, War, Serenity, International Peace Day, Peace And Serenity

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

- Stephen King

topic: Good Luck, Serenity, May

When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us conscious of a certain openness, gentleness, innocence, gaiety, and serenity. O, how amiable this simplicity is! Who will give it to me? I leave all for this. It is the pearl of the Gospel.

- Francois Fenelon

topic: Giving, Simplicity, Serenity

When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.

- Chogyam Trungpa

source: Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “Meditation in Action”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

topic: Attitude, Emotional, Serenity, Kitchen Sinks

In seeking true peace some of us need to improve what has to be improved, confess what needs to be confessed, forgive what needs to be forgiven, and forget what should be be forgotten in order that serenity can come to us.

- Jeffrey R. Holland

topic: Order, Serenity, Forgiving, True Peace

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Thinking, People, Serenity

Do you know God? Do you know there is a power greater than ourselves which manifests itself within us as well as everywhere else in the universe? This I call God. Do you know what it is to know God, to have God's constant guidance, a constant awareness of God's presence? To know God is to reflect love toward all people and all creations. To know God is to feel peace within - a calmness, a serenity, an unshakeableness which enables you to face any situation. To know God is to be so filled with joy that it bubbles over and goes forth to bless the world.

- Peace Pilgrim

source: Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.87, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

topic: People, Joy, Serenity

I used to be the kind of person who needed to have a lot of people around. That's where I found my serenity.

- Jessica Simpson

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: People, Serenity, Kind

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.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

source: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.201, Google Publishing

topic: Heart, Serenity, Age, Warmth Of Heart

I believe it is my duty to share the gifts I have learned. How dare I have the tools for finding serenity and not share them with the world?

- Gabrielle Bernstein

source: "May Cause Miracles | Author Gabrielle Bernstein Interview: Rachel P. Goldstein". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Believe, Serenity, Tools

Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfill your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.45, Manonmani Publishers

topic: Self, Serenity, Desire, Desire For Power

Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Acceptance, Expectations, Serenity

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

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Peace, Passion, Serenity, Peace And Love

When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Serenity, Contentment, Desire

Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Serenity, Balance, States

Drink deeply. Live in serenity and joy.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Joy, Serenity, Drink

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

- Pio of Pietrelcina

topic: Heart, Simplicity, Serenity, Bonds Of Love

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

- Pio of Pietrelcina

topic: Perseverance, Serenity, Praying

Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Serenity, Magnificence, Contemplation, Peace And Serenity

No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.

- Cyril Connolly

topic: Passion, Past, Serenity, Glare

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

- Andre Gide

source: Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.14, Routledge

topic: Art, Serenity, Rising

Start with meditation, and things will go on growing in you—silence, serenity, blissfulness, sensitivity. And whatever comes out of meditation, try to bring it out in life. Share it, because everything shared grows fast.

- Rajneesh

topic: Silence, Meditation, 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.

- Rajneesh

topic: Sex, Passion, Serenity, Brahmacharya

The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.185

topic: Wise, Serenity, Aim

In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.292

topic: Serenity, Age, Behavior, Old Person

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

- Gertrude Stein

source: Gertrude Stein (2016). “Three Lives”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

topic: Class, People, Serenity, Middle Class, Affectionate

God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

source: "Serenity Prayer". Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr, 1951.

topic: Giving, Serenity, Grace, Prayer Changes Things, Drastic Change

Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

- Anton Chekhov

source: Letter to K.S. Barantsevich, March 3, 1888.

topic: Pain, Grief, Serenity

Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.

- John Ortberg

topic: Mean, Serenity, Doubt

That subject matter has never left me...The more you're in the material world, the more there is a tendency for a search for serenity and a need to not be distracted by physical elements that are around you.

- Martin Scorsese

topic: Serenity, Needs, Elements, Subject Matter

Your serenity matters to heaven. God's presence encapsulates your life.

- Max Lucado

source: Max Lucado (2012). “Come Thirsty: No Heart Too Dry for His Touch”, p.118, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Life, Serenity, Heaven

Faith, courage, and intelligent and uninterrupted awareness - these qualities are to be present whether one is wide awake, half asleep, or in deep slumber. An individual who lives like this performs his daily actions with a mind free from selfishness. This is poise in action. And this poise leads to that serenity which is in the truest sense a healthy mind in a healthy body.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

source: B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.107, Shambhala Publications

topic: Intelligent, Serenity, Healthy, Wide Awake, Mind Free

Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.

- Jorge Luis Borges

source: Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Dreamtigers”, p.21, University of Texas Press

topic: Book, Order, Serenity, Gravitation

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

- Joseph Addison

source: 'The Spectator' no. 381, 17 May 1712

topic: Clouds, Break Through, Serenity, Gloom, Clouds And Stars

For serenity, always prefer the cottage to the palace!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Serenity, Cottages, Palaces

There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1146, Delphi Classics

topic: Serenity, Looks, Innocence

We have done the impossible. And that makes us mighty.

- Joss Whedon

source: "Fictional character: Mal". Firefly (TV series), 2002 - 2003.

topic: Firefly, Serenity, Done, Human Spirit

Doctor, I'm taking your sister under my protection. If any thing happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you I will get very choked up. Honestly, there could be tears.

- Joss Whedon

topic: Firefly, Doctors, Serenity

The ultimate test's always your own serenity. If you don't have this when you start and maintain it while you're working you're likely to build your personal problems right into the machine itself.

- Robert M. Pirsig

topic: Serenity, Machines, Tests, Zen Motorcycle Maintenance, Personal Problems

The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

- W. Somerset Maugham

source: W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

topic: Philosophy, Serenity, Philosopher, Literary Criticism, Impartiality

If I wished to see a mountain or other scenery under the most favorable auspices, I would go to it in foul weather, so as to be there when it cleared up; we are then in the most suitable mood, and nature is most fresh and inspiring. There is no serenity so fair as that which is just established in a tearful eye.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.634, e-artnow

topic: Eye, Weather, Serenity

The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the world, while he lives.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

topic: Disappointment, Serenity, Poetry, Unconcerned

The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives adivine life. By the healthful and invigorating thrills of inspiration his life is preserved to a serene old age.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.243, Xist Publishing

topic: Inspirational, Men, Serenity, Invigorating, Ambrosia

When we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement.

- Julia Cameron

topic: Faith, Letting Go, Serenity