Serenity

Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm. – Anon.

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us. – Joseph Addison

For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace. – Bhagavad Gita

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. – Cyril Connolly

Ive got to have a place where I can find peace of mind. – Princess of Wales Diana

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. – Meister Eckhart

But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says, – Ralph Waldo Emerson

We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence. – Dag Hammarskjold

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. – Hermann Hesse

Tranquility is the old mans milk. – Thomas Jefferson

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you. – Jessica Lange

Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good. – Johnny Miller

There is in stillness oft a magic power
To calm the breast when struggling passions lower,
Touched by its influence, in the soul arise
Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies. – John Henry Newman