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Quotes About Tranquility

Mi sueño es el de Picasso; tener mucho dinero para vivir tranquilo como los pobres.
~ Fernando Savater
When you are undisturbed by a situation it falls away of its own weight.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Affirm: I am now immune to all hurts and frustrations. The Power within is perfect peace and perfect poise.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
When you can no longer be disturbed, all disturbance will disappear from the external. "When your eyes have seen your teachers, your teachers disappear.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
The inharmonious situation comes from some inharmony within man himself. When there is, in him, no emotional response to an inharmonious situation, it fades away forever, from his pathway.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
There are, however, other kinds of meditation. One of them is known as active meditation. In this form of meditation, one relaxes the body and enters
~ Forbes Robbins Blair
You are out of the world's chatter, its corridor echoes, its muttering. Walking: it hits you at first like an immense breathing in the ears. You feel the silence as if it were a great fresh wind blowing away clouds.
~ Frédéric Gros
Thus the man who walks all day has become certain by nightfall.
~ Frédéric Gros
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Sleep swallowed her like a pond gulping a pebble.
~ Frances Hardinge
La muerte es el fin de toda angustia, el más tranquilo sueño, el eterno descanso. El que ha gozado debe retirarse de la vida como huésped satisfecho; el que ha sufrido, recibir gustoso a la que viene a cortar el hilo de sus desaventuras. [pp.150]
~ Francesc Miralles
Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.
~ Billy Campbell
But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.
~ Billy Collins
I like my home and I like the nature.
~ Billy Corgan
Pero hay otra clase de felicidad, la que todos hemos estado anhelando y buscando. Esta segunda clase de felicidad es paz y gozo internos y duraderos que sobreviven a cualquier circunstancia.
~ Billy Graham
Most people yearn for one thing more than anything else: inner peace. Without it they have no lasting happiness or security.
~ Billy Graham
Peace—[the ability] to sleep in the storm!
~ Billy Graham
Home was a refuge for me, a place I could truly relax.
~ Billy Graham
Many people are trying to steady themselves by taking tranquilizers. Jesus is the greatest tranquilizer of all. He can straighten out your life and put you back on center.
~ Billy Graham
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
~ Blaise Pascal
All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
~ Blaise Pascal
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
~ Blaise Pascal
Hey I'd like to daze away to a Place like no one has known In a state of mind I could call mine That only I could own Where I could hum a tune anytime I choose, and then there is no such thing as time Where I can feel no pain just calm and sane What a place for one to find
~ Blind Melon
When you smoke (ganja) you don't want to war.
~ Bob Marley