Quotes About Tranquility

I want to be relaxed in my personal life. I really don't like to be hassled.

Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

I don't like being angry all the time; it's not good for me. I have to have serenity or else go to war.

Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.

My best vacation is somewhere I could hide, somewhere warm and not a lot of people around.

I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space.

My designs are free-flowing in their approach, and I want to create an ambience of warmth and tranquility.

I am not a warrior.

Enough mind chatter. I imagined every thought encapsulated in a bubble; I exhaled them into the world. Gradually the noise ceased, and my mind was dark and still.

You have time. Meaning don't use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don't rush to meet it. Be a conduit.

If each person attains inner peace through meditation and develops love for all, it will not be long before peace prevails on our planet.

In meditation we turn off the channel of the world and switch on the channel of God.

Meditation helps us attain inner peace. When our soul contacts the Light beyond, we are filled with a total tranquility and fulfillment.

Animals have attained such perfection in their existence, while man has never known such tranquility. I have always believed that animals listen to one perfect voice — nature's voice — and do as it bids them. We, on the other hand, listen only to ourselves, and we do as we please. Our ego, our pride, is generally our instructor, instead of reality, intellect, or even common sense. We live our lives superficially, led by our personalities.

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.

Madrid es tener un gabán que abriga mucho y con el que se puede ir tranquilo hasta a los entierros con relente. Madrid es no admitir lo gótico. Madrid es la improvisación y la tenacidad. Madrid es quedarse alegre sin dinero y no saber cómo se pudo comprar lo que se tiene en casa. Madrid es un lugar de pocas palmeras. Madrid es presenciar cómo los churreros hacen los churros como si hiciesen monedas falsas, algo clandestino en la noche, pero legítimo en la mañana.

If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.

The mind is by nature restless. Begin liberating it from its restlessness; give it peace; make it free from distractions; train it to look inward; make this a habit. This is done by ignoring the external world and removing the obstacles to peace of mind.

Real peace is happiness. Pleasures do not form happiness.

La soledad está en la mente de un hombre. Uno puede estar en el centro del mundo y sin embargo mantener una perfecta serenidad; una persona así siempre está en soledad. Otro puede estar en el bosque, y aún así, ser incapaz de controlar su mente. Entonces no se puede decir que esté en soledad. La soledad es un actitud del ánimo; un hombre apegado a las cosas de la vida no puede alcanzar la soledad, no importa dónde esté. Un hombre desapegado está siempre en soledad.