But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.

- Elle Macpherson

At these big set-piece events like the leaders' debates, that exterior of calm and serenity is nothing compared to what's going on inside most of the time.

- Nicola Sturgeon

I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.

- Nathan Fillion

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

- Luis Barragan

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

- Keith Miller

The only real difference between shooting 'Firefly' and 'Serenity' was that on 'Serenity,' we had a lot more freedom with time. When you're shooting a television show, you usually have anywhere between six and nine pages of script to shoot a day, and only twelve hours to do it. But with 'Serenity,' we could shoot one scene all day long.

- Jewel Staite

Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.

- Johnny Miller

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

- Joseph Addison

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

- Isaac Barrow

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

- Irving Penn

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

- Andre Gide

My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting.

- Elaine Stritch

I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.

- Dusty Springfield

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

- Dirk Benedict

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

- David Guterson

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

- Desmond Tutu

What keeps me sane the most is, honestly, the Serenity Prayer.

- Bryce Dallas Howard

I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos.

- Alexis Knapp

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

- Alain Badiou

I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity.

- Ayelet Waldman