Serenity Quotes

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 (Serenity Prayer)

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There is beauty and serenity in the eye of the storm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A consistent state of Serenity and Compassion
is living an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I forgive everyone for every "wrong"
that I believe they have ever inflicted upon me.
I forgive them for my own sake,
that I may release the venom -
the anger and resentment within myself -
and regain my joy and serenity.
I have compassion for everyone who has ever
been a player upon the stage of my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What if it were only an illusion?
Perhaps life is not as threatening as it appears.
Perhaps the greatest threat to our serenity
is our fear of the future -
our fear of the unknown.
Perhaps, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said,
"The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Forgiving others is a gift to yourself,
given not because the other deserves pardon,
but because you deserve the serenity and joy
that comes from releasing resentment and anger,
and from embracing universal forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The Eye-of-the-Storm.
Surrounded by the winds and the rain,
yet peaceful in its own unworldly way -
an unnatural ruddy-cloudy misty-bright kind of way.
Whatever comes next, the eye of the storm is
a moment of serenity among the challenge -
a time for repose and contemplation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

"Mother Teresa Prayer"
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.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.

What if happiness were found in the serenity of simple pleasures.
What if we didn't need the newest gizmo... the highest high?
What if happiness is in the air we breathe...
slowly, deeply, and consciously?
What if happiness is one fresh grape, savored with gratitude?
What if happiness is in our oneness with all creation?
What if happiness is about enjoying life exactly as it comes to us -
without chasing after it?
What if happiness is something we CHOOSE...
regardless of our circumstances?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Greetings, cosmic children of the universe.
Welcome to my serenity circle.
Please leave all bad vibes outside the healing vortex.
- the movie Shrek the Third (2007)

Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself.
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

When we are happy and serene,
time loses its power over us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Make a conscious choice to live
a serene and stress-free life.
Stress is always waiting just outside your door
like a vicious wild-dog.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.
- Henry David Thoreau

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky

If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa

All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles

Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein

I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth

Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love them as they are,
and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver

Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous

Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Return love for hate.
- Anonymous

It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa

Love is stronger than justice.
- Sting

Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein

Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa

The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud

If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie