Quotes About Tranquility

am positioned here in tranquility, allowing the waxing energy of the Moon to embrace me and my desire. That aspiration is . . . (state your desire). I am grateful for what I have, such as . . . (state that for which you are grateful, even if it is only one thing). Allow this to come to be.

Misfortune prompts us to summon our utmost strength to oppose grief and recover tranquility, while prosperity hurries us away until we are overwhelmed by our passions. Queen Margot Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. La Rochefoucault We promise according to our hopes; we perform according to our fears. I sometimes wonder is the esprit, gaiety, intellectual seriousness and serious stylishness of the earlier period was the reflex of poverty and shared hardship.

Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax.

theophany of quietness

One is less lonely when one is alone.

Grandi sono le soddisfazioni di una vita laboriosa, agiata e tranquilla, ma ancora più grande è l'attrazione dell'abisso.

Work, look for peace and calm in work; you will find it nowhere else.

In the garden I tend to drop my thoughts here and there. To the flowers I whisper the secrets I keep and the hopes I breathe. I know they are there to eavesdrop for the angels.

So much of Valetto is negative space, I thought as I walked along, the conjuring of imaginary forms, but then you turn a corner and see the curled Cs of a dozen sleeping cats in the piazza, the clay-potted geraniums on the edges of stone stairs, the winter rooftop gardens, or the old man in a leather apron walking to the church every hour to ring the bronze bells, and you feel certain that this town of ten will be here forever.

Una tarde de domingo es inconfundible.

If he could just get rid of the harsh irritation of his conscious thinking, then he would be all right; then he would be at peace

People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.

La paz les dejo, la paz mía les doy: no se la doy yo, como la da el mundo. No se turbe su corazón, ni se acobarde.

It is well to be simple once in a while.

After three weeks of constant bobbing and weaving, constant trouble, constant worry, my final week in Guerrera would be calm and serene.

God loves sleep. He made it.

In the stillness of life, we find our higher self. Be still and God is with you. Be still, and you are never alone.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.

Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.

When the ranch is in peace, no other life is more perfect.

Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it's the universe that's breathing.

Avoid the poison in your life that brings you turmoil.