Quotes About Serenity And Happiness

#1. 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

#2. You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them ... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can.

James Cagney

#3. I never really know the protocol for this kind of situation. It's like when you're in line at a store, and a grandma starts telling you all about her grandchildren or her arthritis, and you smile and nod along. But then it's your turn to check out, so you're just like okay, well, good-bye forever.

Becky Albertalli

#4. Life is a dash.
Pause in the present.
Enjoy this moment.

J.R. Rim

#5. 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

#6. So many people have tried to get happiness and serenity from outside things; it's pretty much common knowledge that is a road to nowhere. I've never heard anybody say, 'Fame made me the complete person I am.' Well, I'm sure people have said it, but nobody I respect.

Jared Leto

#7. The happiness which comes from long practice, which leads to the end of suffering, which at first is like poison, but at last like nectar - this kind of happiness arises from the serenity of one's own mind.

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#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. I know what it means to be moved by a book in my body so much that I go looking for its analog in the real world.
[From an interview with Complex magazine, 12/2012]

Junot Diaz

#10. I wasn't going to be the victim. I was going to be a survivor. And I would never let anyone get in the way of my happiness ever again.

M. Clarke

#11. May I nurture the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can change and wisdom to know the difference

Frank Ra

#12. I never pegged you for a fan of the obvious, sam", "i'm not, otherwise, i would've said, 'hey, shouldn't you be in school ?'", "touche

Maggie Stiefvater

#13. Let us be like the moon with love and beauty.
Let us follow the night to love the tranquility and serenity.

Debasish Mridha

#14. When women agree with me I always do the other thing

Charles Bukowski

#15. To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe.

Peter Yarrow

#16. Tranquility, serenity, and beauty of nature taught me how to find happiness in life and in the silence of eternity.

Debasish Mridha

#17. We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.

Ricky Gervais

#18. 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

#19. You love yourself and you are happy, and what you perceive as self-loathing and misery are really outside of you.

Bryant McGill

#20. Reduce the speed and intensity to reduce stress. A flower blooms slowly, in calmness, and in serenity.

Debasish Mridha

#21. While i may have been strong, i was not particularly goat like.

Chrissie Wellington

#22. It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer.

Henry David Thoreau

#23. The leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.

Sun Tzu

#24. Too much stress cannot be laid ... upon the admonition that we seek so far as possible to live in the lives of other people. By sharing in the misfortunes of others, and rejoicing in their happiness, you add to your own emotional serenity and stability.

Ralph Alfred Habas

#25. Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison

#26. 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

#27. Money can purchase the symbols but not the causes of serenity and buoyancy. In a straightforward way we must agree that money cannot buy happiness.

John Armstrong

#28. Immerse in serenity,
live in tranquility.

Debasish Mridha

#29. There is also a false serenity that is not at all Christian. We need feel no shame as Christians about a measure of impatience, longing, protest against what is unnatural, and a strong measure of desire for freedom and earthly happiness and the capacity to effect change. In

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#30. Be awake in every moment but be calm and live in serenity in the midst of chaos.

Debasish Mridha

#31. 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

#32. Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.

Swami Vivekananda

#33. The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest themselves forth from the parchment and wreak mischief on whomsoever gazes upon them.

E. Hoffmann Price

#34. I used to think my father had been assigned to us by the government.

Akhil Sharma

#35. Happiness is not found in serenity, tranquility or surrealism. It is found in harmony of thoughts, actions, and reality.

Debasish Mridha

#36. 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

#37. Serenity of mind brings joy and happiness in life.

Debasish Mridha

#38. I think it's creepy if a guy says, I would never hit a girl. Cause that should go without saying. That's like if you ever heard a guy go, I would never crap in a hot tub.

Bonnie McFarlane

#39. Ava, wherever I'm going from now on, I'm taking you with me, baby.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#40. I love the serenity as a tree loves its calmness.

Debasish Mridha

#41. Step outside of yourself now and then, treat yourself nice like you treat others and your happiness will soon begin.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#42. Be a person who radiates love, compassion, kindness, tranquility, serenity, peace and joy to burn and purify everything around you.

Debasish Mridha

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

Ingrid Betancourt