Quotes About Tranquility

How easy it is to drive away or obliterate from one's mind every impression which is troublesome or alien, and then to be immediately in perfect calm. p36

You are not compelled to form any opinion about this matter before you, nor to disturb your peace of mind at all. Things in themselves have no power to extort a verdict from you.

For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul

It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be disturbed in our soul, for things themselves have no natural power to form our judgments.

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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

If you have a library in your garden, everything will be complete.

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

And I wondered what would become of me, and comforted myself that in a hundred years I would be dead and at peace, and in my grave; and I thought it might be less trouble altogether, to be in it a good deal sooner than that.

She longs for tonight, she longs to skip the day that's just begun and plunge headlong into the night as if into a pool; a pool with the moon reflected in it. She longs to swim in liquid moonlight.

There's nothing more for me to see. The bridge is only a bridge, the river a river, the sky is a sky. This landscape is empty now, a place for Sunday runners. Or not empty: filled with whatever it is by itself, when I'm not looking.

Roz added sheep to Heaven. They would be outside the window, naturally.

Sleep is the only rest we get; It's then we are at peace. We do not have to mop away the floor And wipe away the grease.

Silence is the language of inertia.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

eyes that had the still gleam of a forest pool in winter when brown leaves shine up through quiet water.

There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.

I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.

I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.

A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year.

Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.