Quotes About Tranquility

Meditation helps me to calm down.

If you're really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, 'Hey;' you just very calmly present something.

Bees and butterflies, moths and dragonflies, the flowers and the brooks and the clouds.

My soul was like a summer evening, after a heavy fall of rain, when the drops are yet glistening on the trees in the last rays of the down-going sun, and the wind of the twilight has begun to blow.

All he wanted was to get home quickly, and then sit down and be quiet.

THERE'S A KIND OF PEACEFULNESS IN THE NAMES OF ENGLISH COARSE FISH. ROACH, RUDD, DACE, BLEAK, BARBEL, BREAM, GUDGEON, PIKE, CHUB, CARP, TENCH. THEY'RE SOLID KIND OF NAMES. THE PEOPLE WHO MADE THEM UP HADN'T HEARD OF MACHINE-GUNS, THEY DIDN'T LIVE IN TERROR OF THE SACK OR SPENDING THEIR TIME EATING ASPIRINS, GOING TO THE PICTURES, AND WONDERING HOW TO KEEP OUT OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMP.

Alguns anos antes-quantos?-devia fazer uns sete anos-ele sonhara que estava andando em um aposento completamente às escuras. E alguém sentado a um lado disse,quando ele passou:Ainda nos encontraremos no lugar onde não há escuridão. Isso foi dito com muita tranquilidade, de forma quase despreocupada-era uma afirmação, não era uma ordem.

There had been many definitions of Man; he would make another: "The noise-producing animal." Now there was only the nearly imperceptible murmur of his own engine. He had no need to blow the horn. There were no back-firing trucks, no snorting trains, no pounding planes overhead. In the little towns no whistles blew or bells rang or radios blared or people talked. Even if it was the peace of death, still that was a kind of peace.

I took me to the Banks of the River, and tarried there awhile, as the lowering Sun made one with the Water, giving generously of Itself & its Diverse Colors, in a Splay of Magnificence that preceded a most wonderful Silence.

The pale water which goes away along paths of silence.

It was a great gift of his, being able to sleep anywhere, at any time, and forget his worries from one second to the next.

It was as if a lifetime's wisdom and peacefulness had found its way into her head while she was still young.

Einem erschlossenen Acker gleichen die Seelen der Menschen an Feiertagen. (Aus: der Apostel 1890)

There is a certain fine simplicity in a landscape from which the element of water, with all the varied life it brings in it murmuring train, is entirely absent.

When I worked in the city, it was about survival. Now when I work in the countryside, I feel like I'm truly living.

I have to be calm and go slowly, and above all, keep working hard.

The living room is where we come to think, to slow down the world for a second.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

When you quiet your mind, you can enter a world of clarity, peace and understanding.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

There's a quality of life in Maine which is this singular and unique. I think. It's absolutely a world onto itself.

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think... All of us instinctively feel that something inside us is crying out for more spaciousness and stillness to offset the exhilarations of this movement and the fun and diversion of the modern world.

You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.