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
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity
Joseph Addison
The serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and the purity of mind are called the austerity of thought.
Bhagavad Gita
Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.
Isaac Barrow
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
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven
John Donne
I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.
Luis Barragan
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter.
Henri Matisse