Quotes About Tranquility

Ya descansaremos bien a bien cuando estemos muertos.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Complacencies of the peignoir, and lateCoffee and oranges in a sunny chair.

Sigh for me, night-wind, in the noisy leaves of the oak. / I am tired. Sleep for me, heaven over the hill. / Shout for me, loudly and loudly, joyful sun, when you rise.

If there must be a god in the house, must be, Saying things in the rooms and on the stair, Let him move as the sunlight moves on the floor, Or moonlight, silently, as Plato's ghost Or Aristotle's skeleton. Let him hang out His stars on the wall. He must dwell quietly.

Life seemed nearest to acceptable at four A.M.

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self-contained.

Peace is always beautiful.

The Arctic expresses the sum of all wisdom: Silence.

Slowly, silently, now the moonWalks the night in her silver shoon.

Lieber hinsetzen und entspannen als hinspannen und entsetzen.

Rest easy and go with the faith you lived with

Aquellos que se obsesionan con el éxito y lo convierten en un valor, y además manejan esquemas rígidos de ejecución, viajan mal aunque quieran aparentar lo contrario. Quizá la felicidad no esté en ser el mejor vendedor, la mejor mamá, el mejor hijo o descollar en cualquier cosa, sino simplemente en intentarlo de manera honesta y tranquila, y disfrutarlo mientras se lleva a cabo.

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,Easy live and quiet die.

Empty hills, no one in sight,only the sound of someone talking;late sunlight enters the deep wood,shining over the green moss again.

Clear waters drift through the immensity of a tall forest. In front of me a huge river mouth receives the long wind. Deep ripples hold white sand and white fish swimming as in a void. I sprawl on a big rock, billows nourishing my humble body. I gargle with water and wash my feet. A fisherman pauses out on the surf. So many fish long for bait. I look only to the east with its lotus leaves.

Watching wild landscapes I forget distance and come to the water's edge.

We can choose to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be troubled by it; for things themselves have no power of their own to affect our judgments.

Like a bowl of water, so is the soul; like the light falling on the water, so are the impressions the soul receives. When the water is disturbed, the light also seems to be disturbed; yet it is not disturbed. Epictetus, Discourses 3.4.20

That happy age when a man can be idle with impunity.

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

A few amber clouds floated in the sky without a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a pure apple-green, and from that into the deep blue of the mid-heaven.