Serenity is one of the strongest shields we can build in our minds. Truth is, events and people in our lives are unpredictable. How do we protect ourselves when we can’t control what happens to us all the time?
And, please don’t see serenity as another meaning of invalidating and suppressing your emotions. Serenity doesn’t feel forced. That would defeat what it means. Serenity is natural and easing.
Sometimes we need to go through storms to choose calm. Sometimes we have to fight a battle that we’ll lose to realize that we’re better off without it.
Serenity, to me, is the choice to accept things and people as they are. It doesn’t mean I appreciate them. It means I am now letting go of the illusion of control and instead keeping myself peaceful. Because that’s what I can do, that’s what really helps.
I hope that choosing and living in serenity becomes natural and easy for you, sooner than later. To help you, here are some beautiful quotes about serenity. Take care.
Serenity Quotes
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
― Lao Tzu
“When we free ourselves from desire, we will know serenity and freedom.”
― Gautama Buddha
“The strength of faith is inner serenity.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
“Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
“Serenity is the guard that soothes your soul and keeps your mind at ease.”
― Courtney Brooks
“Forgiveness brings peace and serenity to us at all levels—soul, spirit, heart, mind, and body—making our natures more pleasing to ourselves, to others, and to God.”
― Nozer Kanga
“I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.”
― Luis Barragan
“Life is all a green old English garden and time an endless summer afternoon.”
― Henry James
“The best fighter is never angry.”
― Lao Tzu
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr
“I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.”
― Jane Austen
“To taste life, so true and real. Sweet serenity.”
― Jonathan Lamas
“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
― G.K. Chesterton
“Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.”
― Lao Tzu
“There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.”
― Alain Badiou
“Don’t underestimate the power of humor and the ability to laugh at yourself to deliver peace and serenity.”
― Charles Glassman
“He who loves nature loves peace.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
“Nothing so becomes us as stillness and quiet serenity.”
― Joyce Sequichie Hifler
“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.”
― Grenville Kleiser
“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.”
― Joseph Addison
“Why was it that the sight of water made everything in the world seem okay? She wanted to look at water every day.”
― E.C. Diskin
“Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.”
― Lao Tzu
“Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it…Don’t allow his anger to become your anger.”
― Bohdi Sanders
“Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.”
― Johnny Miller
“For serenity, always prefer the cottage to the palace!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
“Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind.”
― Dalai Lama
“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”
― Jack Kerouac
“Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.”
― Thomas Szasz
“Peace is life. Love is life. No river holds a grudge against a rock in its path. No leaf refuses to blow in the breeze. No plant denies water or sunshine. We, as human beings, have the gift of self-awareness, but this gift quickly turns to self-destruction if we do not learn to use it. We must learn to turn our minds towards the peace and love that we are flowing within at any given moment. This is the key to serenity. This is The Love Mindset.”
― Vironika Tugaleva
“Peace comes from your heart first and then it spreads to the rest of your body.”
― Major Mike Russell
“It is the stillness that will save and transform the world.”
― Eckhart Tolle
“Serenity shrinks as luxury grows.”
― Abhijit Naskar
“Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.”
― John Donne
“Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.”
― Jawaharlal Nehru
“All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.”
― Patrick Lindsay
“Solitude is the house of peace.”
― T.F. Hodge
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The nature of nature is to heal and energise. Whenever we give it a little of our time and attention, it dissolves our problems, realigns our body, clears our mind, and awakens our spirit. And it’s free.”
― Donna Goddard
“The best listeners are often those with the quietest heart.”
― Marie Sabillo
“Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.”
― Thomas A. Kempis
“Peace is the simplicity of heart, serenity of mind, tranquility of soul, the bond of love.”
― Pio of Pietrelcina
“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Spend time with yourself. It is where everything begins. It is in this serene space of solitude that you will find clarity, peace and direction.”
― Miya Yamanouchi
Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn’t death of things, then there wouldn’t be any life to celebrate.
― Norman Davies
“A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.”
― Luis Barragan
“To find peace in any moment all we need to do is respect our own soul.”
― Mimi Novic
“Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“I love being able to pass from a feeling of euphoria to one of calm and serenity.”
― Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
“Go in the direction of where your peace is coming from.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“If you lose your temper, you lose!”
― Richard Diaz
“When you do the right thing, you get the feeling of peace and serenity associated with it. Do it again and again.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr
“A grateful heart sees a glimpse of heaven in everything.”
― Mimi Novic
“Believe you’re at the right place at the right time and you won’t be bored.”
― Maxime Lagacé
“Be calm. God awaits you at the door.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
“Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr
“Laughter is timeless, inspiration is infinite, peace is priceless.”
― Jennifer Pierre
“I don’t wanna leave this Earth taking more than I gave.”
― Kierra C.T. Banks
“To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“In a noisy world like ours, the best gift to have is a quiet mind. In a dangerous world like this one, the best gift to own is a calm soul. In a life like we are placed in, the best gift to receive is a serene outlook. May we have all three of these gifts.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.”
― Christopher Pike
“Wisdom comes from reflection.”
― Deborah Day
“In stillness, you will find serenity.”
― Leo Lourdes
“Action is a part of the very reality it transforms, just as the wave is a part of the ocean. The point is not to renounce action, but to act with serenity. Our action will be all the more effective, and all the happier.”
― André Comte-Sponville
“One needs serenity and elegance to take the most important steps in life.”
― Paulo Coelho
“Sometimes you just have to find something to keep your body grounded, your mind flexible, and your heart open.”
― Imania Margria
“Calm is not merely the absence of stress, but the powerful presence of peace.”
― Gina Simmons Schneider
“Common man’s patience will bring him more happiness than common man’s power.”
― Amit Kalantri
“Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.”
― Pythagoras
“Normalize doing nothing and being fine with it.”
― Maxime Lagacé
“Life is a dash.
Pause in the present.
Enjoy this moment.”
― J.R. Rim
“If you are searching for serenity, think positively.”
― Gift Gugu Mona
“When the soul heals, the issues of the body disappear like they never happened.”
― Pawan Mishra
“Serenity is not the conclusion of a soul journey, it is the acceptance of being on a soul journey.”
― Lorraine Nilon
“Accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.
And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.”
― Kahlil Gibran
“In the end, we will realise that we only came to earth to love.”
― Mimi Novic
“Go slow, my life, go slow. Let me enjoy the beauty of silence, serenity, and solitude.”
― Debasish Mridha
“What if making peace with our warring hearts—peace within—is the first step to world peace?”
― Jared Brock
