Quotes About Tranquility

I enjoy the quiet life.

Simple life and peaceful mind are very close friends!

Proceed calmly in life.

What sweet delight a quiet life affords.

Peace Within. Peace Without. Mi Zai

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

Life is settled and I'm enjoying it.

I just want a quiet life. I think that's what everybody says when they get older.

You have to make peace with life

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

I don't have life rage anymore.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Peace, perfect peace, by thronging duties pressed? To do the will of Jesus, this is rest.

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing—detachment. —MEISTER ECKHART

On Sleep's soft lap the head without a crown Forgot the gilded trouble it had worn

An acre of land between the shore and the hills... A garden I need never go beyond, Broken but neat, whose sunflowers every one Are fit to be the sign of the Rising Sun...

Corpse Pose sounds like no big deal, right? Then what's so difficult about this spiritualized snooze? Forget about getting your feet behind your head. Just try lying still for ten minutes. With nothing left to do, you're finally forced to come face to face with yourself.

It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

Patience actuates one's power, which embraces the success and peace.

Small white clouds floated in the blue sky above, and on the street a flute vendor was playing the flute - a sharp, soft, sinuous, Oriental tune that twisted and turned in the ear like embroidery, like a picture of a dream in a novel, a trail of white mist coming out from under the bed curtain and unfurling all sorts of images, slowly uncoiling like a lazy snake, till finally the drowsiness is just too great, and even the dream falls asleep.

muddy water is often made clear if allowed to stand still.

At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against the bitter winds. We do something very similar to protect our minds through the practice of meditation.