Gretchen Rubin

Habit allows us to go from 'before' to 'after,' to make life easier and better. Habit is notorious - and rightly so - for its ability to direct our actions, even against our will; but by mindfully shaping our habits, we can harness the power of mindlessness as a sweeping force for serenity, energy, and growth.

American Author

Ed Begley, Jr.

We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.

American Actor

Jawaharlal Nehru

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.

Indian Leader

Alistair Cooke

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.

American Journalist

Robert Foster Bennett

I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.

American Politician

Desmond Tutu

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.

South African Leader

Reinhold Niebuhr

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.

American Theologian

Elaine Stritch

My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting.

American Actress

Dirk Benedict

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

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Vietnamese Clergyman

Serenity suggests a deep, lasting state of calm, not just a brief moment of quiet.

Emotional State

Serenity is always seen as a positive quality, representing an ideal state of mind.

Positive Connotation

The word is often used when describing a search for inner calm in a chaotic environment.

Seeking Peace

Serenity as a title is a formal, respectful way to address or refer to someone of high status.

Formal Address

The term is archaic and mostly used in historical or ceremonial contexts nowadays.

Historical Context

The usage of 'serenity' as a title is less common and typically reserved for special ceremonial occasions.

Ceremonial Use

 love and play and that to pursue one realm to the disregard of the others is to open oneself to ultimate sadness in older age where is to pursue all three with equal dedication is to make possible a life filled not only with achievement but with serenity so since I tell stories let me look back on the

Learning from past...

 in order to protect herself from the cold and the mosquitoes. She was eating moths. I mean, just a harrowing story of survival. I met her recently, and she was so lit and radiant with this kind of serenity and this kind of wonder and joy, and I said, "How are you like this?

It's OK to feel...

 work, love and play. And that to pursue one realm to the disregard of the other, is to open oneself to ultimate sadness in older age. Whereas to pursue all three with equal dedication, is to make possible a life filled not only with achievement, but with serenity.

Doris Kearns Goodwin:...

 that to fulfill our potential for doing we have to surrender our profound potential for being, that the number of transistors on a circuit can be doubled and doubled, but our capacity for compassion and humanity and serenity and love is somehow limited

The dream we haven't...

 caused an improvement in their moods they felt a reduction in agitation and an irritability and an increase in calm 80% of them said that they were able to take that sense of serenity back with them to their cells our staff surveys revealed that staff

Bringing forests into...

 i want them to be transported to that place i was very lucky to live in japan for several years with my family it really inspires me how vibrant life is here and the serenity of some of the traditional culture

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 including you. there is almost nothing outside of you that will help in any kind of lasting way, unless you're waiting for an organ. You can't buy, achieve or date serenity and peace of mind.

12 truths I learned from...

 It is a deep sense of serenity and fulfillment. A state that actually pervades and underlies all emotional states, and all the joys and sorrows that can come one's way.

The habits of happiness...

 Peace is not the dove and the rainbow -- as lovely as they are. When I see the symbols of the rainbow and the dove, I think of personal serenity. I think of meditation.

Jody Williams: A...

 there are places where the serenity of nature should be accompanied only by quiet contemplation this isn't one of those places from around the world that