Quotes About Tranquility

I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.

In bed by herself: adorable condition.

Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.

she was playing something so low and soft that it felt as if she were humming it ... notes built and subsided, as if a giant were softly breathing them, as if each note was a drop of water going down a stream filled with rocks.

Oh, for the pure oblivion of sleep! In those vast waters I would sink me deep Beyond where both desire and dream lie dead, And passion and despair forget to weep.

Strive to live in peace with everyone. For, peace is better off than war or conflict. -Emeasoba George

Omul a pierdut simtul marilor taceri, al marilor linisti ce imbata fiinta cu arome de eternitate.

El hastío es un vértigo, pero un vértigo tranquilo, monótono; es la revelación de la insignificancia universal, es la certidumbre llevada hasta el estupor o hasta la suprema clarividencia de que no se puede, de que no se debe hacer nada en este mundo ni en el otro, que no existe ningún mundo que pueda convenirnos y satisfacernos.

I draw the curtains, and I wait. Actually, I am not waiting for anything, I am merely making myself absent. Scoured, if only for a few minutes, of the impurities which dim and clog the mind, I accede to a state of consciousness from which the self is evacuated, And I am as soothed as if I were resting outside the universe.

I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.

my greatest pleasure was to stop in country cemeteries, to stretch out between two graves, and to smoke for hours on end.

in order to dispel any impulse of vengeance once I had endured some affront, I would imagine myself quite still in my grave. And I calmed down at once.

The apprenticeship to passivity—I know nothing more contrary to our habits.

at this hour of the morning, I needed no one.

7 oct. Duminic? la È›ar?. S? te întinzi È™i s? miroÈ™i p?mântul. Numai pe el poÈ›i conta. Oboselile noastre îl cheam?. ?i în timp ce-l simÈ›eam atât de aproape, m? gândeam c? nu e chiar aÈ™a sinistru s? te dizolvi în el. Într-adev?r, oboselile noastre îl cheam? È™i-l reabiliteaz?.

Hacia una sabiduría vegetal: abjuraría de todos mis terrores por la sonrisa de un árbol...

Enjoy that special place.

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

You ask me why I dwell amidst these jade-green hills? I smile. No words can tell the stillness in my heart. Peach blossoms drift streamwater away deep in mystery. I live in the other world one that lies beyond the human.

Chúng ta mu?n s?ng yên ?n, không thích xáo tr?n, nh?ng r?t thích thú nghe nói v? các s? xáo tr?n c?a k? khác. Chúng ta dành nhi?u gi? ?? bàn cãi sôi n?i v? ng??i này, ng??i n?, chê bai ông này, gi?u c?t bà kia. Ph?i ch?ng chúng

When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.

It's a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matter how rough the waves get, you're never bothered by the noise the water makes by the commotion of the surface - it never seems too loud, or too wild.

I was frightened of so many things, in my vanity, that ultimately i couldn't protect myself any other way. Try not to be like that, okay? Be sure to keep your tummy warm, try to relax, both your heart and your body, try not to get flustered. Live like a flower. You have that right. It's something you can achieve, for sure, in your lifetime. And it's enough.

The room was so unearthly quiet, I lost all sense of time being divided into seconds. I felt that I was the only person alive and moving in a world brought to a stop.