Quotes About Tranquility

I'm afraid you'll find it very quiet down here, Hastings." "My dear fellow, that's just what I want.

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

It is so pleasant, so deeply peaceful: spending the day with you.

your face like a village asleep at the bottom of a lake which is reborn to daylight from the grass and from the year germinates

The goal of this meditation is beautiful silence, stillness, and clarity of mind.

All you need to do is follow the instructions: Sit down, shut up, watch, and don't get involved. Gradually, the meditation experience will open up all by itself.

Disengaging means you leave these things alone and you're not concerned or worried about them.

The quieter you become the more happiness you have.

it's the nature of the mind to be restless.

Remember you don't meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting go.

Beneath his zen-like tranquility lurks something wounded… and dangerous.

The silence lingers and we soak it up like a good steam. Men like silence. We believe in it. We crave it. To us, silence is equal to peace and synonymous with quiet. Thus the common gender-specific phrase uttered by men in homes throughout the world, usually in the evening and on weekends: "Can I please get some peace and quiet, please?

Happy the eyes that can close

Neil's voice was calm, confident, most of all clear. "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." It was 4:17:42 P.M. EDT, Sunday, July 20, 1969.

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

In a busy city it is easy to forget that somewhere out there are fields and rivers and peace.

I am more at peace with myself and the world when I spend an extended period outdoors

There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.

My idea of heaven is being in Arizona, stuck up a mountain - somewhere where there are no phones.

The thing I love most about going to the Rocky Mountain National Park is that mobile phones don't work, and there's no electricity and no TV.

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.

There is need occasionally to leave the noise and the tumult of the world and step within the walls of a sacred house of God, there to feel His Spirit in an environment of holiness and peace.

People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.