Serenity Quotes

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.

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

I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.

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.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity.

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

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

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

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

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

I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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