“Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.”
Thomas S. Szasz
“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 and inner beauty come when we wait upon God. 'Waiting' like that is not merely wasting time.”
Eva Burrows
“People like the serenity of walking through the gardens even when it's hot, even in the summer time.”
Paul Saito
“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.”
Joseph Addison
“I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not--more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.”
Beverly Sills
