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Quotes About Tranquility

Everything is so soft here, ' he said, 'so easy...' 'I know
~ Octavia E. Butler, Kindred
The elixir for the vexed human spirit is quiet thinking and contemplation.
~ Sravani Saha Nakhro
Sometimes being oblivious is a blessing.
~ maitha
Calm of mind, all passion spent.
~ John Milton
Peace hath her victoriesNo less renown'd than war.
~ John Milton
Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.
~ John Milton
Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.
~ John Milton
And add to these retired Leisure,That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.
~ John Milton
No war, or battle's soundWas heard the world around.The idle spear and shield were high up hung.
~ John Milton
Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.
~ John Milton
What hath night to do with sleep?
~ John Milton
TO COME HOME TO YOURSELF May all that is unforgiven in you Be released. May your fears yield Their deepest tranquillities. May all that is unlived in you Blossom into a future Graced with love.
~ John O'Donohue
Silence. Complete and utter silence.
~ John Orr
Knowledge does not enter the unquiet mind.
~ John Ostrander
This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.
~ John Ruskin
I love when it snows it slows everything down.
~ John Searles
Live as you want and you shall be at peace.
~ John Shors
A perfect day is: Nobody calls with a problem they can handle themselves.
~ John Weigel
Beneath his awe, he had a sudden sense of security and serenity he had never felt before.
~ John Williams
A new tranquillity had come between them. It was a quietness that was like the beginning of love; and almost without thinking, Stoner knew why it had come. They had forgiven themselves for the harm they had done each other, and they were rapt in a regard of what their life together might have been.
~ John Williams
O for a Booke and a shadie nooke, eyther in-a-doore or out; With the grene leaves whisp'ring overhede, or the Streete cryes all about. Where I maie Reade all at my ease, both of the Newe and Olde; For a jollie goode Booke whereon to looke is better to me than Golde.
~ John Wilson
How very still you sit!
~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
She went on slowly and dreamily along the shore. Beautiful women do not need to hurry.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
La señora Palfrey durmió plácidamente y toda la noche, con los labios ligeramente estirados, como si estuviese a punto de sonreír.
~ Elizabeth Taylor