Quotes about Serenity
There's the hum of the bee drone two blocks away the racket of it you'd think it was right over the roof, when the bee drone swirls nearer and nearer (gulp again) you retreat into the cabin and wait, maybe they got a message to come and see you all two thousand of em- but gettin used to the bee drone finally which seem to happen like a big party once a week- and so everything is eventually marvelous.
— Jack Kerouac
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