Quotes About Tranquility

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Above all, the Stoics sought wisdom, a condition that I myself hope to achieve after I stop wrecking and burning things.

Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility. Respectfully preparing tea and partaking of it mindfully create heart-to-heart conviviality, a way to go beyond this world and enter a realm apart. No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering agent more benign.

Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.

Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low; Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all; Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop's fall.

The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.

And what is so rare as a day in June?Then, if ever, come perfect days.

A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

they grew dark and foamy in the cool.

The swish of the oars and the hypnotic thrum of dragonflies blended with his academic monotone.

something about the place inspired a magnificent laziness I hadn't known since childhood.

If we're not at peace, we are in an ego state.

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But peace is in the mind, and not in streets, however old and beautiful

It seemed that the lust to power was a thing one grew out of. What one wanted, she thought ... was peace, and freedom from the pressure of angry and agitated personalities.

the noiseless tenor of our way

A cup of tea would restore my normality. [ Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay ]

R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more than, say, five minutes late. It is therefore clearly as almost infinite variable figure according to circumstances, since the first two factors vary not only with speed as an absolute, but also with awareness of the third factor. Unless handled with tranquility, this equation can result in considerable stress, ulcers, and even death.

In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it's throat.

He lay still and quiet. He absorbed the enveloping darkness, slowly relaxed his limbs from end to end, eased and regulated his breathing, gradually cleared his mind of all thought, closed his eyes, and was completely incapable of getting to sleep.

Abilene (AB-a-lene) adj. Descriptive of the pleasing coolness on the reverse side of the pillow.

R is a velocity measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being and not being more than, say, five minutes late. It is therefore clearly an almost infinitely variable figure according to circumstances, since the first two factors vary not only with speed taken as an absolute, but also with awareness of the third factor. Unless handled with tranquility this equation can result in considerable stress, ulcers and even death.

Arthur sat at the bar and rested. He was used to not knowing what was going on. He felt comfortable with it.