50 Serenity Quotes to Bring Peace into Your Life

Serenity is among the most powerful shields we can create within our minds. It’s true that the life events and the people we meet in our lives can be unpredictable. How can we safeguard ourselves when we aren’t able to control the events that happen to us at any given time?

Please don’t view serenity as a way of suppressing and denying your feelings. Serenity does not feel like it’s been forced. It’s not the meaning of serenity. Serenity is a natural state that can be easing.

Sometimes, we have to endure storms in order to maintain peace. Sometimes, we need to engage in a fight that will be lost to see the benefits not fighting it.

Serenity for me is the decision to accept people and things for what they are. This doesn’t mean that I love the things or people I encounter. It’s a sign that I’m getting rid of the illusion of control, and instead trying to keep myself calm. Since this is what I am able to do, and that’s what aids.

We wish that the choice of living a life of serenity will become easy and natural sooner than later. For your convenience with this, here are some lovely quotes about the serenity of life. Be careful.

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50+ Serenity Quotes For Peace

“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

“Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength.” – Pam Brown

“Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.” – Johnny Miller

“Peace is the simplicity of heart, serenity of mind, tranquility of soul, the bond of love.” – Pio of Pietrelcina

“Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.” – Gautama Buddha

“Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.” – Pythagoras

“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

“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

“If others hurt you, let the injury go. This is your test. If you let it go, you will find serenity.” – Wayne Dyer

“The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.” – Reinhold Niebuhr

“I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!” – Joss Whedon

“Radiate an energy of serenity and peace so that you have an uplifting effect on those you come into contact with.” – Wayne Dyer

“I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.” – Luis Barragan

“The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.” – Glenn Gould

“Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.” – Sakyong Mipham

“We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil.” – Swami Satchidananda

“Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm.” – Unknown

“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

“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.” – Joseph Addison

“I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excluding, but with a kind of unassailable serenity-to decorate one’s inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.” – Edith Wharton

“It is the stillness that will save and transform the world.” – Eckhart Tolle

“We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know – we have forgotten how to be – to be still – to be ourselves – to be where life is here and now.” – Eckhart Tolle

“The key to serenity is trusting that the universe has your back.” – Gabrielle Bernstein

“Decide that wherever you are, is the best place there is. Once you start comparing, there’s no end to it.” – Sodo Yokoyama

“Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.” – Mark Black

“Relaxation is the antidote to the demanding and fast-paced world we live in. It restores our sense of peace and harmony.” – Judith Hanson Lasater

“There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.” – Alain Badiou

“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.” – Joseph Addison

“The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.” – Sylvia Kristel

“Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.” – Thomas Szasz

“To become mindfully aware of our surroundings is to bring our thinking back to our present moment reality and to the possibility of some semblance of serenity in the face of circumstances outside our ability to control.” – Jeff Kober

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.” – Mother Teresa

“Everything passes, nothing remains. Understand this, loosen your grip and fine serenity.” – Surya Das

“Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.” -Isaac Barrow

“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.” – Marvin Gaye

“Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.” – Bill Crawford

“Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.” – John Donne

“I love being able to pass from a feeling of euphoria to one of calm and serenity.” – Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

“The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.” – Andre Gide

“The most wonderful taste of serenity is found by the love you create for yourself, and those around you.” – Joe Torres

“Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.” – Henry David Thoreau

“And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth’s green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos.” – Alexis Knapp

“Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.” – Paul Tsongas

“What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.” – Irving Penn

“God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.” – Reinhold Niebuhr

“Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others.” – Gladys Taber

Conclusion

We hope that our quotes give you a moment of contemplation or inner tranquility, helping you to find a sense of peace amidst all the difficulties. Be still and allow these quotes provide gentle reminders to take refuge in the present.