Quotes About Tranquility

And then there's this strange vast serenity that seems to come from the fact that he doesn't feel he has to prove anything.

Learn to Be Silent

Drink a cup of herbal tea, if you like. Listen to some soft classical music and prepare yourself to drift

All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.

unyielding when it comes to the protection of your inner peace.

Una vida tranquila de reclusión en el campo, con la posibilidad de ser útil a aquellas personas a quienes es fácil hacer el bien y que no están acostumbradas a que nadie se preocupe por ellas. Después trabajar, con la esperanza de que sirva para algo; luego el descanso, la naturaleza, los libros, la música, el amor al prójimo… En eso consiste mi idea de la felicidad.

Nothing's as valuable as my happiness. Nothing's as priceless as my peace of mind

It's only when you get away from the noise and nuisance and be in quiet and tranquility that you remember who—and all—you're truly meant to be. Just say yes to life.

Tranquility is the new luxury of our society.

The soul that moves in the world of the senses and yet keeps the senses in harmony... finds rest in quietness

Hers was a quieter, more profound loveliness, the kind that makes sunrises special and moonbeams enchanting.

the fretting about the past, the brooding over the future

James Bond creator Ian Fleming purchased a retreat in Jamaica he named GoldenEye that was perched over a ravishingly lovely beach to provide him with the epiphanies and artistic fuel that would increase his craft. (I find it fascinating that he instructed his gardeners not to walk past the window of his writing studio as it would break his artistic trance.)

Postpone not your heroism and never delay your peacefulness.

La tranquilidad es el nuevo lujo de nuestra sociedad.

SONG OF QUIETNESS Drink deep, drink deep of quietness, And on the margins of the sea Remember not thine old distress Nor all the miseries to be. Calmer than mists, and cold As they, that fold on fold Up the dim valley are rolled, Learn thou to be.

The idea was precious to her. Doll...but with death behind her, and all the peace that would come with that.

A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation, the cat is a veritable manipulative genius. It seeks the soft, it seeks the warm, it prefers the quiet and it loves to be full. It displays, when it gets its own way in these matters, a degree of contentment we would all like to emulate.

I just want to sleep the sleep of ages, to know again the Great Rest, the perpetual bliss, to hear the songs the stars sing on the shores of the great sea.

Then he sat down with his back against the door and ate his lunch. When he had finished, he threw the leaf wrappings over the edge and watched them fall, drifting from side to side on the air currents, until they were out of sight. He lit his pipe then and smoked.

I had run out of causes and was close as I ever might be to peace.

Elbridge Gerry had bawdily likened standing armies to a tumescent penis: "An excellent assurance of domestic tranquillity, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.

No matter what the excitement, John retained his quietude and smiled on all occasions.

Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magisterial wings above the knurled summit of the mountain behind my tent. It was a scene of peerless tranquility, tossed out in Nature's devil-may-care way, which says: Just open your eyes, my friend, and I'll astonish you every minute of your life.