Quotes about Serenity
No war or battle sound was heard the world around.
- John Milton
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
- AA Milne
God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.
- Oscar Wilde
I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
- Tina Turner
The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
If we live in peace ourselves, we in turn may bring peace to others. A peaceable man does more good than a learned one.
- Thomas a Kempis
The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence — it is unshakeable
- Thomas Merton
Celestial wisdom calms the mind.
- Samuel Johnson
The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
- Oswald Chambers
All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.
- Ernest Hemingway
I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).
- St. Basil