Quotes About Tranquility

back across the sand, passing the white concrete

Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!

Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world.

I think that Puerto Rico just has this calm and peace.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

I have never been ambitious and have always gone with the flow.

There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.

I used to beg my mom to let me put a real bed out in forest so I could lie there and listen to the sounds of the forest while still having all the comforts of home.

For me, exercise is a form of meditation and I find it very calming.

It is never very crowded at the front.

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.

Wisdom's ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace.

And then smelling it, feeling it before the sound even reaches him, he kneels at cliff's edge and for the first time, turns his head toward the now visible falls that gush over a quarter- mile of uplifted sheet- granite across the valley and he pauses, lowering his eyes for a moment, unable to withstand the tranquility—vast, unencumbered, terrifying, and primal.

alcoves, and once or twice he sat down

She had never seen a child who sat so still without doing anything;

Everything as strange and silent, and she seemed to be hundreds of miles away from anyone, but somehow she did not feel lonely at all.

She lay and listened to the quietness.

The stillness seemed to hold her and she paused to hear and feel it.

She knew now why she had come up here. It was so that she might feel like this—as if she was upheld far away from things—as if she had left everything behind—almost as if she had fallen awake again. There was no perfume in the air, but all was still and sweet and clear.

the houses that are important to us are the ones that allow us to dream in peace.

He needed to get away from the rush of the city, from the unceasing noise and annoying obligations.

A large color plate of a cat statue caught my eye and I gazed at it for several moments, my mind empty of thought. Without an ego, one simply looks. The image of the cat, entirely whole and entirely static, is a signal to the mind to come to rest. There is no immediate sense of beauty, only the act of seeing.