Quotes About Tranquility

Le vrai besoin qu'il avait éprouvé tout ce temps-là était de goûter un moment de silence qu'il ne pouvait trouver à l'endroit où son esprit ordinaire le gardait occupé à chercher.

Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.

When life is a weariness and escape impossible, it is wonderful to have a friend who can bring us peace with the touch of a hand. After this Finna decided to tend the cow herself... Those were the good days. They were serene days and quite undemonstrative, like the best days in one's like; the boy never forgot them. Nothing happens; one simply lives and breathes and wishes for nothing more, and nothing more.

Those were good days. They were serene days and quite undemonstrative, like the best days in one's life; the boy never forgot them. Nothing happens; one simply lives and breathes and wishes for nothing more, and nothing more.

Calming allows us to rest, and resting is a precondition for healing.

There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.

There is silence, and then there is rural silence, silence you could feel and reach out and touch, silence with texture and distance.

After touring so much, I was looking for some peace. I found Morocco, and it was perfect. Everything I wanted to feel about peace, I found it there.

Montserrat is a very pleasant place to do nothing. The islanders know this, and they know this is why tourists go there, but they are not totally comfortable with the notion.

There is a comfortable feeling in small towns. It is salubrious.

I'm particularly inspired by pristine locations. I enjoy working in areas where one can travel for miles without seeing any human influence.

I drop in from the sky disturbing the silence only momentarily, then leaving the ancient land once more to converse with the sky. It's my home and all I need.

The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.

Under a cherry tree, all burdens of life fly away!

Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

Let us go over, and sit in the shade of the trees.

it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

The weakness of most men they do not know how to become a stone or tree.

The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here.

In the woods we return to reason and faith.

Some beach, somewhere. There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growin' and a warm breeze a blowing. I picture myself right there, on some beach, somewhere.