Top 86 Peace Serenity Quotes
#1. Before I was abducted, I think that happiness was related to success. Nowadays happiness is related, for me, to rest, peace, serenity.
Ingrid Betancourt
#2. What awaits you? Eternal peace. Serenity. The light on the other side. What awaits me is unknown. The only certainty is that life is an eternal hell.
Julie Anne Peters
#3. There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more joy, peace and serenity than proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ
Heber J. Grant
#5. 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
#6. The silence of a mountain has the tranquility and serenity of peace.
Debasish Mridha
#7. Also at times, on the surface of streams,
Water?bubbles form
And grow and burst
And have no meaning at all
Except that they're water?bubbles
Growing and bursting.
Alberto Caeiro
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Do not allow outer chaos disturb your inner tranquility, serenity, and peace.
Debasish Mridha
#12. 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.
Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger
#13. Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.
Matthieu Ricard
#14. Life is a dash.
Pause in the present.
Enjoy this moment.
J.R. Rim
#15. The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart.
James Joyce
#16. 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
#17. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.
Epicurus
#18. Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
E.B. White
#19. 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
#20. There is no joy that's greater than the feeling of peace and serenity you find within yourself.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#21. I couldn't fight the urge to close my eyes, to match my breathing to his. And I was flooded with a feeling that couldn't be serenity. Because Peacemakers were never meant to know real peace.
S.A. McAuley
#22. If you stop feeding strife, it will eventually lead to a peaceful life.
Jeanette Coron
#23. The best fighter is never angry.
Lao-Tzu
#24. Every moment is precious and beautiful, filled with love, joy, peace, tranquility, and serenity.
Debasish Mridha
#26. Live in joy, in love,
even among those who hate.
Live in joy, in health,
even among the afflicted.
Live in joy, in peace,
even among the troubled.
Look within, be still.
Free from fear and attachment,
know the sweet joy of the way.
Gautama Buddha
#27. There's serenity in the stillness of the water and my body absorbs it through my pours, desperate to find its peace.
Vi Keeland
#28. Living the gospel does not mean the storms of life will pass us by, but we will be better prepared to face them with serenity and peace. 'Search diligently, pray always, and be believing,' the Lord admonished, 'and all things shall work together for your good, if ye walk uprightly.'
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#29. When one is without ego, one becomes immediately free of all personal judgements, and perceives life and the world with divine eyes and mind.
Nothing is offensive to them and they remain in perfect serenity and peace always.
Mooji
#31. I pray that I may strengthen my inner life, so that I may find serenity. I pray that my soul may be restored in quietness and peace.
Anonymous
#32. 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
#33. Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
Anais Nin
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. However, what he wanted was impossible: the serenity of the Gods cannot be achieved by the sword.
Andrew Ashling
#37. There is no emotion, there is peace.
There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.
There is no chaos, there is harmony.
There is no passion, there is serenity.
There is no death, there is the Force.
Daniel Wallace
#38. 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
#39. God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed ... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#40. There was peace in stillness, a serenity that couldn't be found anywhere else in this hot, fast, often terrible world.
Seanan McGuire
#41. Peace is the simplicity of heart, serenity of mind, tranquility of soul, the bond of love.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#42. Serenity is the guard that soothes your soul and keeps your mind at ease.
Courtney Brooks
#43. I find that peace. I find the serenity. I find a familiar deep comfort that can be found nowhere else. Miller wreaks havoc on my mind, body, and heart. And he chases it away just as well.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#44. Cross over children. All are welcome. All welcome. Go into the Light. There is peace and serenity in the Light.
Zelda Rubinstein
#45. The serenity of truth and the peace of death can be only secured through a largeness of contempt embracing all the profitable servitudes of life. He
Joseph Conrad
#46. For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
#47. I have just lost my reason for fighting so hard. How do I go on now, without my thing to fight for?' And he whispered into my ear, he said: 'Maybe it's time to stop fighting.
C. JoyBell C.
#48. Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made - which is something no 'normal' person would do.
Keith Johnstone
#49. Don Jaime relied on this to conserve what he defined as serenity: peace of mind and soul, the only fragment of wisdom to which human imperfection could aspire. His whole life lay before him, smooth, broad, and definitive, as untroubled by uncertainty as a river flowing to the sea.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#50. Reconcile with yourself for the sake of the world, for the sake of all living beings. Your peace and serenity are crucial for all of us.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#51. If a country successfully translate the principles of truth and honesty into their social life, then that country experiences peace, tranquillity and serenity.
Sunday Adelaja
#52. The brainless serenity of charwomen and janitors working late at night came over us. In a messy world we were at least making our little corner clean.
Kurt Vonnegut
#53. May this Soulful understanding of Christmas invite - the peace, harmony and serenity you deserve.
Eleesha
#55. Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#56. Go in the direction of where your peace is coming from.
C. JoyBell C.
#57. I like to live my life now with peace, patience, serenity, forgiveness, gratitude and acceptance of myself.xx Jean
Jean Murray
#58. Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.
Pope John Paul II
#59. Beneath his exhaustion, he radiated a serenity that suggested nothing in this place could touch him. Maybe nothing in this world could touch him. It was one of the most beautiful things she'd ever seen. She wanted to be that way, too: at peace with herself, autonomous, free.
Lauren Kate
#60. Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison
#61. Embrace truth and peace as you breathe the joyful heights of inner fulfilling serenity.
Angelica Hopes
#62. By your side I'm most quiet and most unquiet, most inhibited and most free.
Franz Kafka
#63. I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.
Desmond Tutu
#64. When a tire blows, you simply accept that this is the here and now reality of your life. You've lost the tire, but that doesn't mean that you have to lose your peace and serenity. Now, serenely, begin to take the necessary steps in order the change the tire.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#65. Perfection is not something you strive for. Perfection is in the eyes of the beholder. Perfection is a state of grace, of peace of serenity, a moment as fleeting as a smile.
Chloe Thurlow
#66. In the scriptures, 'peace' means either freedom from strife, contention, conflict, or war, or an inner calm and comfort born of the Spirit that is a gift of God to all of his children, an assurance and serenity within a person's heart.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#67. Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#68. Be a person who radiates love, compassion, kindness, tranquility, serenity, peace and joy to burn and purify everything around you.
Debasish Mridha
#69. 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
#70. Mother Earth taught me that my anger
toward nature was unfounded.
And she therefore invited me to open my heart to this
possibility: so too may be my anger toward man.
Anasizi Foundation Good Buffalo Eagle
#71. Don't underestimate the power of humor and the ability to laugh at yourself to deliver peace and serenity.
Charles F. Glassman
#72. Radiate an energy of serenity and peace so that you have an uplifting effect on those you come into contact with.
Wayne Dyer
#73. 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
#74. If you find yourself engaged in an argument that only stirs anger in the heart, quickly make peace and carry on.
Suzy Kassem
#75. There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.
Christopher Pike
#76. Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#77. The yoga pose is not the goal. Becoming flexible is not the goal. Standing on your hands is not the goal. The goal is serenity. Balance. Truly finding peace in your own skin.
Rachel Brathen
#78. Human beings have always yearned for serenity and inner peace.
Christopher Dines
#80. I just want you to know , I love serenity, and peace; no craziness, no weird people turning up in the middle of the night.
Yngwie J. Malmsteen
#81. What if making peace with our warring hearts - peace within - is the first step to world peace?
Jared Brock
#82. If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it?
Nhat Hanh
#83. Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#84. For most men the world is centered in self, which is misery: to have one's world centered in God is peace.
Donald Hankey
#85. When someone obtains peace and serenity, this shines a bright spotlight on others' own unhappiness making their discomfort even more apparent.
David W. Earle
#86. My incentive? Making a peaceful spirit second nature. And that is so worth the effort.
Carlos Wallace
