Quotes About Tranquility

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

A garden is a friend you can visit any time.

Modesty and dew love the shade.

I closed my eyes and lay my head against the headrest, and we sat there together for a while longer, two people lost in remembered music, half hidden in the shadow of a castle on a moonlit hill.

there's not much that can't be fixed by a decent cup of tea …

distance, through the clatter of the

Nathan was made of equanimity.

I had never, in my life, imagined I would spend time somewhere like this. Every morning I woke to the sound of the sea breaking gently on the shore, unfamiliar birds calling to each other from the trees.

After the emotional turbulence of the past week, it was good to be surrounded by a bit of normality.

But in my experience there's not much that can't be fixed by a decent cup of tea…

Sometimes I feel I could stay in the woods for ever.' He nodded. 'I often think,' he said, 'that when you're out here at daybreak you can pretend you're the only person in the world.

You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.

Here it is… your moment of Zen.

Aš turiu laiko - visas laikas yra mano, aš metais ži?riu ? gelton? liepos žyd?jim?, neskub?damas ir nesir?pindamas.

In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life

When he had gone, I lay in bed for a long time, listening to the voices of the choir at evensong. Outside, the darkness thickened and grew strange.

In sleep things are simpler. No regret over the past. No worry for the future. Only the present. And as bad as a dream gets, at least you get to sleep through it.

It is vain to say that human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it." (CHARLOTTE BRONTË, 1847)46

In every permanent situation, where there is no expectation of change, the mind of every man, in a longer or shorter time, returns to its natural and usual state of tranquility. In prosperity, after a certain time, it falls back to that state; in adversity, after a certain time, it rises up to it.12

Maybe still waters did run deep. Or God on your side was the ultimate soul balm.

It was one of those moments when a great Don't Care wave hits you, and you float off on it, head back, looking at the sky.

It was one of those moments when a great Don't Care wave hits you, and you float off on it, head back, looking at the sky.

But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep Maybe one day we'll wake up and this'll all just be a dream

You're not bothering me. I'm not doing anything." Well, I was breathing, and my heart was beating. But the rest of me wasn't busy.