Embrace serenity and a cheerful spirit as your ultimate duty: Standing on the shoulders of giants

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom, when one ceases to fuss and fume and worry and grieve, and remains poised, steadfast, serene. The more tranquil you become, the greater is your success, your influence, and your power for good. Ultimately, having learned how to govern yourself, you now know how to adapt yourself to others. The strong, calm person is always loved and revered as they are always sweet, serene, and calm. According to the ‘As A Man Thinketh’ by James Allen, “That exquisite poise of character, which we call serenity is the last lesson of culture, the fruitage of the soul. It is precious as wisdom, more to be desired than gold — yet, than even fine gold.” The serene life is to be desired more than money, “How few people we meet in life who are well balanced, who have that exquisite poise which is characteristic of the finished character!”

Peace remains a goal for introspective individuals around the world. The lifelong search for inner peace challenges us to learn more about ourselves while allowing us to evolve with the seasons. Creators of past and present would agree that peace requires a journey beginning with you. It’s important to have serenity and harmony in your life for your mental and physical well being. Too much stress and chaos can lead to serious ailments, including anxiety, depression, and chronic pain. People who perceive higher levels of stress in their lives tend to experience poorer physical and mental health, as well as lower overall life satisfaction. Even though dealing with work, family, relationships, and personal problems can be stressful, it is possible to experience peacefulness. There are many different paths to take on your journey to a peaceful life.

Calmness, knowledge, and fairness for all, is the real Revolution we need to spread all around, the way the seeds bloom all around in the Spring. Serenity is a peaceful, restful state in which you do not feel impelled to act. Human beings strive for that calmness and serene feeling, which helps them relax and allows them to reboot their mind and soul and get rid of such emotions as desire, anger, fear, aversion, pride, and confidence. Serenity can be seen as an integral part of the human body, mind, and soul. Serenity means tranquility, maintaining inner peace and calm even in difficult situations. A sense of true purpose can be defined as serenity. It is an untroubled state of mind that everybody wishes to seek, as it is a stress-free and beautifully calm state of mind. It is the state of being free from agitation of mind and spirit as you become more contemplative in nature, such as love, sadness, resignation, relief, and contentment. The emotional quiet of serenity gives you the mental space needed to think.

Today we shall be standing on the shoulders of the following 300 giants to fully understand what it means to embrace serenity and a cheerful spirit as your ultimate duty, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants,” - Sir Isaac Newton, because “The best leaders know that they are standing on the shoulders of others who have come before them.” - Germany Kent:

1. "What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable." - Anthony de Mello
2. “A quiet mouth is a symptom of a quiet mind.” – James Pierce
3. “A quiet soul, peaceful life” - Lailah Gifty Akita
4. “A surprising number of people believe that other people can hurt their feelings.” - Vincent P. Collins
5. “Accept misfortune as the human condition.” – Lao Tzu
6. “All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.” - Patrick Lindsay
7. “Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing?” - Kamand Kojouri
8. “Attachment, need, and desire all must go if one wishes to remain at peace.” – James Pierce
9. “Be unselfish and there'll be serenity.” - Abhijit Naskar
10. “Be yourself and you will feel at home anywhere.” – Jim Kwik
11. “Calm is not merely the absence of stress, but the powerful presence of peace.” - Gina Simmons Schneider
12. “Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.” - Reinhold Niebuhr
13. “Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.” – LAO TZU
14. “Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.” - William Makepeace Thackeray
15. “Clarity brings Serenity.” – Teodomila
16. “Close your eyes and breathe in, concentrate on the breath and heart beat, feel that? You are a living being capable of changing your life and possibly the lives around you, you do not merely exist, your actions affect you and others. Act with love.” - Hamza Wolf
17. “Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind.” ― Dalai Lama
18. “Daily walk in nature brings tranquility to one’s life.” - Lailah Gifty Akita
19. “Do everything with the greatest possible calm and serenity and out of the greatest, purest and holiest love of Jesus and Mary.” - Father Jacques Philippe
20. “Do not allow outer chaos disturb your inner tranquility, serenity, and peace.” ― Debasish Mridha
21. “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” —Dalai Lama
22. “Do not suffer pain and torment without reason. Somebody All-Powerful and All-Compassionate owns everything. Rely on His Power and do not accuse His Compassion. Renounce grief and anxiety ad accept relief. Be rid of your troubles and find serenity.” - Master Nursi
23. “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” —Desmond Tutu
24. “Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.” - Lao Tzu
25. “Don't search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own." —Baba Hari Das
26. “Don't underestimate the power of humor and the ability to laugh at yourself to deliver peace and serenity.” - Charles Glassman
27. “Embrace the magical gift of serenity in your daily life. Nothing beats patience, humility, honesty and tranquility.” - Angelica Hopes
28. “Equanimity is often mistaken for depression.” - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
29. “Every moment is precious and beautiful, filled with love, joy, peace, tranquility, and serenity.” - Debasish Mridha
30. “Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.” ~ George Washington Cable
31. “Everything I desire is within me.” – Deepak Chopra
32. “Everything you do can be done better from a place of relaxation.” – Stephen C. Paul
33. “Faith and relationship are easy when things go well—and are difficult to maintain when things go unwell. Lest we forget that its foundation and strength will be tested in times of adversity—not in serenity.” – Jimvirle
34. “Free from all thoughts of ‘I’ and ‘mine’, a man finds absolute peace.” – Bhagavad Gita
35. “Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.” – Marcus Aurelius
36. “Go in the direction of where your peace is coming from.” - C. JoyBell C.
37. “Go slow, my life, go slow. Let me enjoy the beauty of silence, serenity, and solitude.” ― Debasish Mridha
38. “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
39. “God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.” - Reinhold Niebuhr, ‘The Serenity Prayer’.
40. “God, grant me the serenity to stop beating myself up for not doing things perfectly, the courage to forgive myself because I’m working on doing better, and the wisdom to know that You already love me just the way I am.” -? Eleanor Brownn.
41. “Grant me the wisdom to know when to keep trying and when to stop wasting time, the patience to keep going with the 1st, and the courage & serenity to let go of the 2nd.” - Jay Woodman
42. “Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.” - Thomas A. Kempis.
43. “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.” - Gretchen Rubin
44. “Happiness exists in the serenity of the soul, the calmness of mind” - Epikouros
45. “Happiness is not found in serenity, tranquility or surrealism. It is found in harmony of thoughts, actions, and reality.” - Debasish Mridha
46. “How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.” - Salman Rushdie
47. “I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.” – Dirk Benedict
48. “I can't tell whether a revived man would appreciate his second chance or yearn for the stolen serenity.” - Ahmed Mostafa
49. “I have now realized to be free you must be pleased controlling nothing.” – Arielle S. Davis
50. “I know exactly what I want. Everything. Calm, peace, tranquility, freedom, fun, and happiness.” -? Johnny Depp.
51. “I love being able to pass from a feeling of euphoria to one of calm and serenity.” – Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
52. “I love the vastness of the ocean. I love its serenity, tranquility, humility, and purifying power.” - Debasish Mridha
53. “I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings.” – Ann Jillian
54. “If for any reason your choices do not result in peace, harmony, and balance, you are always free to choose again.” – Iyanla Vanzant
55. “If our thoughts are peaceful, calm, meek, and kind, then that is what our life is like.” ― Elder Tadej ?trbulovi?
56. “If you are searching for serenity, think positively.” - Gift Gugu Mona
57. “If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.” – Marvin Gaye
58. “If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors.” —Frank Sinatra
59. “If you take things personally you will remain offended for life.” – Deepak Chopra
60. “In your serenity there is a clarity, strength and correctness that is beyond the petty scuffles of the moment — a greater truth. It is the truth of who you are; beautiful, calm, secure, open, willing and safe.” - Bryant McGill
61. “Into every life may come tragedy and triumph. Our goal is to meet both equally with serenity and radiant acquiescence. Yet even from the storm clouds of tragedy, rainbows can appear.” - Aleksandra Layland
62. “It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.” - Abraham Lincoln
63. “It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.” - Thomas Jefferson.
64. “It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
65. “Just be, and enjoy being.” – Eckhart Tolle
66. “Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.” – Pythagoras
67. “Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.” ― Marian Wright Edelman
68. “Learn to be silent. Let your mind listen and absorb.” - Pythagoras.
69. “Learn to handle your emotions, or else other people will easily affect you.” – Gal Shapira
70. “Let go of the thoughts that don’t make you strong." —Karen Salmansohn
71. “Life could have been way easier if we can just use "Please, do not disturb" sign in our social lives!” - Mohsen Sheha
72. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu
73. “Live each day with ecstatic serenity” - Lailah Gifty Akita
74. “Love” is only a one syllable word but it’s the most powerful one mankind’s ever heard.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich
75. “Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet.” – Wendell Berry
76. “My incentive? Making a peaceful spirit second nature. And that is so worth the effort.” - Carlos Wallace
77. “Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.” —Saint Francis de Sales
78. “Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.” - Bohdi Sanders
79. “Never strike out of anger if at all possible, this will give your enemy the advantage and strengthen his resolve and psyche” - Soke behzad Ahmadi
80. “Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
81. “no-one would want to go through a traumatic experience but when you’ve survived something life-shattering and risen above it, you achieve a kind of serenity.” - Jane Wilson-Howarth
82. “Normalize doing nothing and being fine with it.” - Maxime Lagacé
83. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
84. “Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.” - Mahatma Gandhi
85. “Nothing so becomes us as stillness and quiet serenity.” - Joyce Sequichie Hifler
86. “Of cheerfulness, or a good temper – the more it is spent, the more of it remains.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
87. “Peace begins with a smile.” —Mother Teresa
88. “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” – Albert Einstein
89. “Peace comes from your heart first and then it spreads to the rest of your body.” - Major Mike Russell
90. “Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.” – Byron Katie
91. “Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.” —Lyndon B. Johnson
92. “Peace is a sense that everything is fine.” – Naval Ravikant
93. “Peace is inward serenity.” - Lailah Gifty Akita
94. “Peace is liberty in tranquility.” —Marcus Tullius Cicero
95. “Peace is the byproduct of understanding in conjunction with the ability to agree or disagree in harmony” - Lamont Renzo Bracy
96. “Peace is the simplicity of heart, serenity of mind, tranquility of soul, the bond of love.” – Pio of Pietrelcina
97. “Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.” —Alanis Morissette
98. “People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway.” - Kent M. Keith.
99. “People often give us a piece of their mind with the intention to take away our peace of mind.” - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
100. “Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.” – Karl Jaspers
101. “Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.” ― Lao Tzu
102. “Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.” – Gautama Buddha
103. “Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it.” - W.P. Kinsella
104. “Serenity is an inward quietness.” - Lailah Gifty Akita
105. “Serenity is the final word of all the teachings; reflection is the response to all manifestations.” ― Hongzhi Zhengjue
106. “Serenity is the guard that soothes your soul and keeps your mind at ease.” - Courtney Brooks
107. “Serenity lies in solitude.” - Lailah Gifty Akita
108. “Serenity of mind brings joy and happiness in life.” - Debasish Mridha
109. “Serenity of mind produces an expanding awareness that fosters creative selflessness, which in turn enables us to experience unabashed harmony communing in rhythmical bliss with nature.” - Kilroy J. Oldster
110. “Serenity shrinks as luxury grows.” - Abhijit Naskar
111. “Shine Your Light” - Louise Crandall
112. “Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.” – Isaac Barrow
113. “Solitude is the house of peace.” - T.F. Hodge
114. “Spend time with yourself. It is where everything begins. It is in this serene space of solitude that you will find clarity, peace and direction.” ― Miya Yamanouchi
115. “Stay away from troubles. Live in peaceful life. And you will be bless.” - Lorena Tamayo Castillo
116. “Step outside of yourself now and then, treat yourself nice like you treat others and your happiness will soon begin.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich
117. “The ability to be content and at peace, by yourself, is freedom.” – Naval Ravikant
118. “The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy and Serenity.” - Emily Post
119. “The best fighter is never angry.” – Lao Tzu
120. “The best listeners are often those with the quietest heart.” - Marie Sabillo
121. “The best way to regain a measure of control; accept things are entirely beyond one’s control – and understanding.” – Alain de Botton
122. “The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.” ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
123. “The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
124. “The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful” ~ Swami Vivekananda
125. “The fruit of silence is tranquility.” – Arabian proverb
126. “The key to serenity is trusting that the universe has your back.” – Gabrielle Bernstein
127. “The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.” —Norman Vincent Peale
128. “The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
129. “The mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.” - Indra Devi.
130. “The need for happiness will imprison you far more than happiness will liberate you.” – James Pierce
131. “The only people I am aware of who don’t have troubles are gathered in peaceful, little neighborhoods. There is never a care, never a moment of stress and never an obstacle to ruin a day. All is calm. All is serene. Most towns have at least one such worry-free zone. We call them cemeteries.” - Steve Goodier
132. “The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.” – Swami Rama
133. “The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
134. “The quiet mind enters into the immeasurable.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
135. “The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful – never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought, or anxiety.” ~ Sathya Sai Baba
136. “The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal peace.” – Bhagavad Gita
137. “The serenity of the spirit is spiritual.” - Lailah Gifty Akita
138. “The silence of a mountain has the tranquility and serenity of peace.” - Debasish Mridha
139. “The strength of faith is inner serenity.” - Lailah Gifty Akita
140. “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
141. “There is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.” – Alan Watts
142. “There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
143. “This moment is fine.” – Naval Ravikant
144. “Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.” – Lao Tzu
145. “To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.” – Dogen
146. “To taste life, so true and real. Sweet serenity.” - Jonathan Lamas
147. “To understand everything is to forgive everything.” – Zen proverb
148. “To win, or to create a great group with winning mentality, you need first stability, but serenity as well. And it is only by creating an internal and mutual trust that you can achieve it.” - Mattia Binotto
149. “Toa msaada katika jamii iliyosaidia kukulea ulipokuwa mdogo.” - Enock Maregesi
150. “Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself.” – Ryokan
151. “Tranquil as a forest, but on fire within, once you find your center, you are sure to win.” - David Zippel.
152. “Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.” – Marcus Antoninus Aurelius
153. “We are but a speck in the Universe. Oh, but what a lucky speck to be...” - Kehinde Sonola
154. “We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious.” ― Sri S. Satchidananda
155. “We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” ~ Friedrich Koenig
156. “We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
157. “Well being, serenity and service to others are the ultimate measures of true wealth, success and power.” ― Brendon Burchard
158. “What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.” - Alberto Caeiro
159. “What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.” – Irving Penn
160. “What if making peace with our warring hearts—peace within—is the first step to world peace?” - Jared Brock
161. “What is heaven? A silent and empty mind.” – Mooji
162. “What we think, we become. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” - Buddha.
163. “Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.” – Eckhart Tolle
164. “When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” —Jimi Hendrix
165. “When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.” – Fran?ois de La Rochefoucauld
166. “When we free ourselves from desire, we will know serenity and freedom.” - Guatama Buddha
167. “When you are a real queen, there is absolutely no reason to try and make people believe that you are one. Because you just are. Life is lived with grace, courage, and serenity. If you must dedicate any amount of time and mental ability to making anyone believe that you are one; you're not!” - C. JoyBell C.
168. “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
169. “When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself.” – Eckhart Tolle
170. “When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world.” —Maha Ghosananda
171. “Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.” – St. Francis of Assisi
172. “Wisdom comes from reflection.” - Deborah Day
173. “Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.” — Edna Ferber
174. “You are not going to be here for too long. Relax.” – Dalos Ortiz
175. “You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” ―Indira Gandhi
176. “You feel suspended in an ocean of tranquility, and all truth seems to stem from this place of inner understanding.” - John Assaraf.
177. “You were beautifully and wonderfully created with the skin of diamonds, so if you do break, you are still valuable.” - Courtney Brooks
178. “Young people need the serenity that comes from a stable home, safe streets, regular income, opportunities for travel and study, affordable transport, and a real stake in the future.” – Luciana Berger
179. A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation. - Mark Twain
180. A mind at war with itself cannot know peace. - James Pierce
181. Accept this moment. - Maxime Lagacé
182. After a storm comes a calm. - Matthew Henry
183. Allow nature to teach you stillness. - Eckhart Tolle
184. And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. - Khalil Gibran
185. Be yourself and you will feel at home anywhere. - Jim Kwik
186. Before I was abducted, I think that happiness was related to success. Nowadays happiness is related, for me, to rest, peace, serenity. - Ingrid Betancourt
187. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. - Charles Kingsley
188. Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity. - William John Locke
189. Care about doing your best. Don’t care about the results. - Maxime Lagacé
190. Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. - Edwin Percy Whipple
191. Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue. - Lawrence G. Lovasik
192. Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature. - Charles Kingsley
193. Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession. - Victor Hugo
194. Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts. - Elizabeth Ann Seton
195. Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us. - Charlotte Bronte
196. 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. - Alistair Cooke
197. Do not try to drive pain away by pretending it is not real. If you seek serenity in oneness, pain will vanish of its own accord. - Sengcan
198. Do your best and then relax. - Paramahansa Yogananda
199. Doing nothing is something. - Thich Nhat Hanh
200. Don’t be afraid to just sit and watch. - Anthony Bourdain
201. Don't use your faith to try to get rid of problems. Use your faith to remain calm in the midst of your problems. - Joel Osteen
202. Enlightenment is ‘being,’ and it grows; its end is serenity. – William Gibson
203. Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity. - Henry David Thoreau
204. Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity. - Thich Nhat Hanh
205. Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. - Robert Louis Stevenson
206. Everything I desire is within me. - Deepak Chopra
207. Everything is temporary. - Lex Fridman
208. For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love. - Adolfo Perez Esquivel
209. For serenity, always prefer the cottage to the palace! - Mehmet Murat Ildan
210. Free from all thoughts of ‘I’ and ‘mine’, a man finds absolute peace. - Bhagavad Gita
211. 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
212. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. - The Serenity Prayer
213. 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
214. Having enough comes from the inside. It comes from seeing yourself and your work differently, from knowing that more is not the answer. - Ryan Holiday
215. He that owns himself has lost nothing. But how few men are blessed with ownership of self! - Seneca
216. Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
217. I believe it is my duty to share the gifts I have learned. How dare I have the tools for finding serenity and not share them with the world? - Gabrielle Bernstein
218. I just focus on working hard and play with serenity. – Fabio Quagliarella
219. I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It's as simple as the serenity prayer; it's a very, very real thing. - Bonnie Raitt
220. I love being able to pass from a feeling of euphoria to one of calm and serenity. – Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
221. I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. – Jane Austen
222. I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings. - Ann Jillian
223. If I am genuinely serene, then it will not matter to me whether things change or stay the same. Either way, I choose to be happy. - Victor Shamas
224. If others hurt you, let the injury go. This is your test. If you let it go, you will find serenity. – Wayne Dyer
225. If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
226. If you are not born a Ronaldo or a Kaka, you can still become a great player through commitment, serenity, perseverance, loving what you do. – Filippo Inzaghi
227. If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. – Marvin Gaye
228. If you can't do something smart, do something right. - Joss Whedon
229. If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. - Thomas Fuller
230. If you lose your temper, you lose. - Richard Diaz
231. If you want a real experience of serenity, look for the good. Affirm the good. Acknowledge the good. - Iyanla Vanzant
232. It is important for a team to have a goalkeeper who gives us serenity and confidence. – Marquinhos
233. It is inner stillness that will save and transform the world. - Eckhart Tolle
234. It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. - Francis of Assisi
235. Just be, and enjoy being. - Eckhart Tolle
236. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. - Jawaharlal Nehru
237. Meditation really helps create not only a sense of balance... but serenity and kind of a calm state of mind. - Eva Mendes
238. Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life and you will attain true serenity. - Bhagavad Gita
239. Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening. - E. B. White
240. Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind. - Sakyong Mipham
241. My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age. – Toby Keith
242. Nature designed us to be of good cheer. - Douglas William Jerrold
243. Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. – Mahatma Gandhi
244. Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace. - Mahatma Gandhi
245. Peace is a sense that everything is fine. - Naval Ravikant
246. 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
247. Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. - Barack Obama
248. Pray with perseverance, with faith, with calmness and serenity. - Pio of Pietrelcina
249. Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
250. Send out love and harmony, put your mind and body in a peaceful place, and then allow the universe to work in the perfect way that it knows how. - Wayne Dyer
251. Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life. - Vita Sackville-West
252. Silence is a form of internal poetry. - Thibaut
253. Slow down. Spend more time observing. - @dailyzen
254. Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand, and becoming comfortable with not knowing. - Eckhart Tolle
255. Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. - Aristotle
256. That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. - Ovid
257. The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, and Serenity. - Emily Post
258. The calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. – James Allen
259. The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
260. The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
261. The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile. - Horace
262. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. - James Allen
263. The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. - Thomas S. Monson
264. The quiet mind enters into the immeasurable. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
265. The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal peace. - Bhagavad Gita
266. The serenity prayer, ‘God grant me the strength to accept…’ That’s a prayer that’s actually in my car. I say it every day. – Lauren London
267. 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
268. 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
269. There are people in many other states who are cheering us. - Bill Vaughan
270. There is a place in you that you must keep inviolate, a place that you must keep clean. - Maya Angelou
271. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
272. Tranquil as a forest, but on fire within, once you find your center, you are sure to win. - David Zippel
273. We have done the impossible. And that makes us mighty. - Joss Whedon
274. We must confront any situation, however difficult it may be, with courage, faith, serenity, confidence and a lot of mental strength. - Seve Ballesteros
275. We must learn to turn our minds towards the peace and love that we are flowing within at any given moment. This is the key to serenity. This is The Love Mindset.” - Vironika Tugaleva
276. We should cultivate the serenity, because in the substance of sincerity germinate the most beautiful flowers of the Spirit. - Samael Aun Weor
277. When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear. - Horace
278. When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink. - Chogyam Trungpa
279. When we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement. – Julia Cameron
280. You can't take a crash course in serenity. - Shirley MacLaine
281. You must sacrifice every thought, every ideology for the good of the nation and for the serenity of our fatherhood. - Francisco Franco
282. #Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. Thich Nhat Hanh
283. “A grateful heart sees a glimpse of heaven in everything” - Mimi Novic
284. “Close your eyes to feel deeply the tranquility and serenity of the mind.” - Debasish Mridha
285. “Everything happens when it needs to happen; everyone is always where they need to be.” – Iyanla Vanzant
286. “Faith often comes from patience and remembering that sometimes patience is taking a deep breath and listening to that little voice on the inside saying, 'Don't worry, everything is going to be all right.” - Charles Glassman
287. “For those of us learning the way to financial serenity and solvency, the envelope system teaches prudence, patience, and perseverance. You can only spend what you have.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
288. “Go slow, my life, go slow. Let me enjoy the beauty of silence, serenity, and solitude.” - Debasish Mridha
289. “Let go of the thoughts that don’t make you strong.” – Karen Salmansohn
290. “Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.” - Sakyong Mipham.
291. “Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
292. “Radiate an energy of serenity and peace so that you have an uplifting effect on those you come into contact with.” – Wayne Dyer
293. “Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ’s religion illuminates with His divine light.” – Franz Liszt
294. “You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.” - J. Donald Walters.
295. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway. - Mother Teresa
296. Serenity is the final word of all the teachings; reflection is the response to all manifestations. - Hongzhi Zhengjue
297. The one who is free of every and any intention, even the intention to be free, is free indeed. - Mooji
298. What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some kind of contribution. - Stephen Schwartz
299. When completely relaxed, we experience the essence of our being, the deep silence that knows everything as it is. - Haemin Sunim
300. “Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.” ~ Charles Dickens.