“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity”
Joseph Addison
“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
“Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“The serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and the purity of mind are called the austerity of thought.”
Bhagavad Gita
“Never allow the noise around you to overcome the voice within. Be in tune with thyself and learn to listen to your heart.”
Ebenezer Olasunkanmi Akinrinade (CYFI Fellow)
“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.”
