Top 140 Serenity Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “In meditation, healing can happen. When the mind is calm, alert and totally contented, then it is like a laser beam – it is very powerful and healing can happen.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

102. “Trust that your soul has a plan, and even if you can’t see it completely, know that everything will unfold as it is meant to.”

— Deepak Chopra

103. “Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

104. “You already are, the peace you are looking for. Be still and know that.”

— Mooji

105. “There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.”

— Henry David Thoreau

106. “Don’t try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds.”

— Rajneesh

107. “Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.”

— Nhat Hanh

108. “Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook, but the ocean’s depths are calm.”

— Buddha

109. “The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity and peace, and free it from confusion and distress.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

110. “When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

111. “Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.”

— Saint Francis de Sales

112. “Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you to follow.”

— Buddha

113. “Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.”

— Ramana Maharshi

114. “Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.”

— Nhat Hanh

115. “You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

116. “The answers you seek never come when the mind is busy, they come when the mind is still, when silence speaks loudest.”

— Leon Brown

117. “Maintain your physical, emotional, and spiritual harmony with the universe by meditating every day. Inhale the precious breath of life. It is your connection to your Higher power.”

— Louise Hay

118. “I let go of all negativity that rests in my body and mind.”

— Louise Hay

119. “Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.”

— Laozi

120. “Still the mind. Inhale peace. Let go of worries. Exhale stress. Notice the breath. Connect to all. Embrace calm.”

— Mary Davis

121. “Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace.”

— Thomas Merton

122. “I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”

— William Wordsworth

123. “Do not wonder why things are “taking so long.” In fact, everything is rolling out exactly as it needs to, using not a minute more than Perfection requires. Rest easy and be at peace. Life is working its magic even as you take your very next breath.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

124. “Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.”

— Rumi

125. “Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don’t do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.”

— Kabir

126. “Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

127. “Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

128. “You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the mind is quiet, keep it quiet. Don’t get bored with peace, be in it, go deeper into it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

129. “You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

130. “Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. 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.”

— Laozi

131. “In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.”

— Max Ehrmann

132. “There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.”

— Ann Voskamp

133. “The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured.”

— Rick Warren

134. “World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

135. “Do not jump into reaction mode at the first appearance of negative energy. Just breathe, and relax.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

136. “Whatever comes, let it come. What stays, let it stay. What goes, let it go.”

— Papaji

137. “Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings.”

— William Arthur Ward

138. “Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.”

— Rumi

139. “Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.”

— Rumi

140. “In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.”

— Nhat Hanh

141. “What I know for sure is that every sunrise is like a new page, a chance to right ourselves and receive each day in all its glory. Each day is a wonder.”

— Oprah Winfrey

142. “Empty your mind of all thoughts.”

— Laozi

143. “Stop and sink into this timeless moment!”

— Mooji

144. “You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.”

— Buddha

145. “If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”

— Lao Tzu