Quotes About Tranquility

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I do pranayama breathing now as a meditation, and that's very helpful. Meditating changed my life.

A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.

Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.

My mind is tranquil. I allow peace into my life

Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.

A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.

I live a generally quiet life, as it were.

Don't go in and out of meditative spaces - stay there with that awareness, always. Everything in life is meditative.

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

What am I doing? Nothing. I am letting life rain upon me.

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.

I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.

No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises...

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

About once a week I think about going and living in a cave and meditating instead. I think that would be a more peaceful life, where my spiritual journey was not interrupted by egomania so regularly.