Quotes About Tranquility

He giveth his beloved sleep.

No God, no peace. Know God, know peace.

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

Sit tibi terra levis [May the earth rest lightly on you].

Requiescat in pace [May he rest in peace; May she rest in peace].

Vade in pace [Go in peace].

el silbido del jardinero, más lejano, destruía alhelíes y tulipanes en la tranquilidad sin remordimiento de los robles, yo preocupada por que el jardín no se convirtiese en una fosa común de flores difuntas

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

One of the biggest enemies to prayer is nervous tension.

Mintalah hati yang damai, walau dalam keadaan apa pun juga.

Sometimes the eye of a hurricane is the safest place to be.

it is splendid to drowse on the davenport, to be warm and fed, to feel the sentences hoist her up and carry her somewhere else.

Clair de Lune," a song that makes her think of leaves fluttering, and of the hard ribbons of sand beneath her feet at low tide.

But the huge bowl of the sky remains untracked: no zeppelins, no bombers, no superhuman paratroopers, just the last songbirds returning from their winter homes, and the quicksilver winds of spring transmuting into the heavier, greener breezes of summer.

The quiet is fretful, unnatural.

The only sound is the patter of the rain turning Saint-Malo into mud.

the sound of the sea washes away all other sounds

unchanging, everlasting, no months, no years, every hour like spring on the clearest, most gold-green morning, the dew like ·[diamonds?]·, the towers like honeycombs, and the western zephyr was the only breeze…

The grasses toss and shimmy. The horses nicker. Madame Manec says, almost whispering, "Now that I think about it, child, I expect heaven is a lot like this.

Static static static static static.

The only way to fall asleep is to stop trying to fall asleep. Sleep is a horizon: the harder you row toward it, the faster it recedes.

A piece of land not so very large, with a garden, and near the house a spring of ever-flowing water, and up above these a bit of woodland.

Il vantaggio più grande che la libertà offre agli esseri umani è quello di allontanarsi da ciò che infastidisce.

there is no such thing as perpetuall Tranquillity of mind, while we live here; because Life it selfe is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare." God had something better in store for the righteous in heaven, but here below it was all buffeting and collision, both outside our heads and in them.