Top 140 Serenity Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The root of suffering is attachment.”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Spiritual Growth Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Mind Quotes

2. “Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.”

— Buddha

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3. “You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can’t control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes

4. “Peace is always beautiful.”

— Walt Whitman

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5. “Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Enlightenment Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes, Spirituality Quotes

6. “Smile, breathe, go slowly.”

— Nhat Hanh

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7. “In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

8. “Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Philosophical Quotes, Wise Quotes, Peace Quotes

9. “Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”

— Buddha

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10. “Let it be.”

— Paul McCartney

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11. “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

12. “Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.”

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Also featured in: Mindfulness Quotes, Practice Quotes, Buddhist Quotes, Peace Quotes

13. “As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love – even the most simple action.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Awakening Quotes

14. “If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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15. “Breathing in, there is only the present moment. Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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16. “Go slowly, breathe and smile.”

— Nhat Hanh

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17. “Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; it makes us value the inner world; it trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

18. “Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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19. “Calmness is the living breath of God’s immortality in you.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

20. “If you can do something about a situation, why worry? And if you can’t do something about a situation, why worry?”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Buddhist Quotes

21. “Allow nature to teach you stillness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

22. “Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.”

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Contentment Quotes

23. “To a mind that is still the whole universe surrenders.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Mindset Quotes, Mind Quotes, Wise Quotes

24. “Do your best and then relax.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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25. “Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Identity Quotes, Taoism Quotes

26. “I'm an introvert. I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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27. “It’s all about finding the calm in the chaos.”

— Donna Karan

28. “When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Mindset Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Self Control Quotes

29. “Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence.”

— Spanish proverb

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30. “It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.”

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Perspective Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

31. “Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”

— Denis Waitley

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Adaptability Quotes

32. “Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned – to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Wellness Quotes, Stress Quotes

33. “Stillness is the altar of spirit.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Also featured in: Spirituality Quotes, Meditation Quotes

34. “Things take the time they take. Don’t worry.”

— Mary Oliver

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Patience Quotes, Contentment Quotes

35. “The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.”

— Confucius

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36. “The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”

— Anne Frank

Also featured in: Feel Better Quotes, Lonely Quotes

37. “If you can’t do anything about it then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you can’t change.”

— Tony Gaskins

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Letting Go Quotes

38. “Calmness is the cradle of power.”

— J.G. Holland

39. “No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.”

— Anthony Hopkins

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes

40. “Silence and solitude, the soul’s best friends.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Also featured in: Silence Quotes, Solitude Quotes

41. “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Sun Quotes, Sunshine Quotes

42. “Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Good Morning Quotes, Nature Quotes, Simplicity Quotes

43. “In my life nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my expectations, I let go of how I think things should be. It’s a matter of not having any attachment to any fixed outcome.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Letting Go Quotes

44. “For me, success is inner peace. That’s a good day for me.”

— Denzel Washington

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Contentment Quotes

45. “There’s nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.”

— Bob Ross

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46. “The key to serenity is trusting that the universe has your back.”

— Gabrielle Bernstein

Also featured in: Universe Quotes

47. “Regardless of the events or circumstances that are happening, remain steady and established in the Self. Then you can be truly happy and blissful.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes

48. “Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

49. “Slow down, simplify and be kind.”

— Naomi Judd

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Contentment Quotes

50. “Be still and quiet, tune in with the Infinite Intelligence, and continue in right thought, right feeling, and right action, and you will arrive at your goal.”

— Joseph Murphy

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