Quotes About Tranquility

If you know not how to die, never trouble yourself; Nature will in a moment fully and sufficiently instruct you; she will exactly do that business for you; take you no care for it.

Its whole expanse was covered with tall, juicy grass, and when the wind blew, great waves passed over it with a sound like troubled water. (The Grassy Ocean)

Look down fair moon and bathe this scene, Pour softly down night's nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple, On the dead on their backs with arms toss'd wide, Pour down your unstinted nimbus sacred moon. —Walt Whitman Sequel to Drum-Taps

our home should be an oasis of peace and harmony for us in a troubled world

Death, I discovered that day, is not frightening, because it is utterly still.

in Asian gardens you could look at rock and imagine water, you could gaze at a still pool and believe it had the hardness of rock.

The noise of the trees, the breaking of moon into silver fish bouncing off the leaves of asters outside.

At night, returning from work, Anil would slip out of her sandals and stand in the shallow water, her toes among the white petals, her arms folded as she undressed the day, removing layers of events and incidents so they would no longer be within her. She would stand there for a while, then walk wet-footed to bed.

Succinct histories tell us something—that anything peaceful has a troubled past.

She finds rest as opposed to sleep the truly pleasurable state.

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

To escape and sit quietly on the beach - that's my idea of paradise.

Vipassana taught me how to maintain equanimity in all situations of life.

I have a way of just being ice and just cooling situations and making things work.

I find music distracting - it takes me out of my head. What I love so much about skiing is the peacefulness.

I'd rather stay away from the limelight. Not because I'm trying to be a good boy and all that stuff. I just love quiet.

I love a warm bath at the end of a day.

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

Loving own country is to love peace

Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.

I love to swim, and I love being near water.

I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible.

I love old gardens best- tired old garden that rest in the sun.

I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.