Top 419 Serenity Quotes & Sayings

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

You can't take a crash course in serenity.

When your witnessing is ninety percent, your mind is reduced to ten percent. And when your witnessing is one hundred percent - total, absolute - the screen is empty, the film has disappeared. This is the state of meditation: when there are no thoughts, no feelings - nothing moves, everything stops. There is tremendous serenity. Out of this serenity, silence, peace, a new kind of experience arises, new flowers blossom.

My time on 'Roadies' gave me serenity and space.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

The only real difference between shooting 'Firefly' and 'Serenity' was that on 'Serenity,' we had a lot more freedom with time. When you're shooting a television show, you usually have anywhere between six and nine pages of script to shoot a day, and only twelve hours to do it. But with 'Serenity,' we could shoot one scene all day long.

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

We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious. If we smile at someone, he or she will smile back. And a smile costs nothing. We should plague everyone with joy. If we are to die in a minute, why not die happily, laughing? (136-137)

Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.

What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, which are free from all passion, thought, or any absorbing and unpleasant labors. Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion.

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

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

Serenity is the final word of all the teachings; reflection is the response to all manifestations.

Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty.

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

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

Within you is the kingdom of serenity that can create all the prosperity you could ever want.

Returning to the source is serenity.

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

I love being able to pass from a feeling of euphoria to one of calm and serenity.

I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.

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.

Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures he faced, "How do you maintain that serenity and peace?" He replied, "I never leave my place of meditation." He meditated early in the morning and for the rest of the day, he carried the peace of those moments with him in his mind and heart.

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.

I just focus on working hard and play with serenity.

There's so much serenity that comes from economic safety.

I have found serenity at Monaco.

I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings.

Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.

Drink deeply. Live in serenity and joy.

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

The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.

For serenity, always prefer the cottage to the palace!

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

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

Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

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

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

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

A slightly modified version of the Serenity Prayer: Lord, grant me the serenity to ignore the assholes I cannot avoid; The luck to avoid the ones I can; And the self-awareness not to be one myself

It was he [Vincent] who helped me to accommodate my life in such a way that I can be at peace with myself. Serenity - this was the favorite word of both of them [Vincent and Theo], the something they considered the highest. Serenity - I have found it.

I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity." The world can't give that serenity. The world can't give us peace. We can only find it in our hearts." I hate that." I know. But the good news is that by the same token, the world can't take it away.

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

What keeps me sane the most is, honestly, the Serenity Prayer.

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

"Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.

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

Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.

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

Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.

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

Serenity is the end - and serenity is also the means - by which you live effectively.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos.

From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength.

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