Quotes About Tranquility

If somebody has something negative to say, I'm a very - I won't say introverted, because I'm not introverted - I'm a very, just, calm person.

What Ireland needs now above all else is peace.

I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all.

Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.

Jealousy isn't something I do. I am not a jealous person.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Is it not knowledge that doth alone clear the mind of all perbutations?

The night was still, of a milk-warm loveliness. Moonlight sprayed silver on the shining camphor- leaves; late orange-blossom swathed the cottage in a perfume so dense that it could almost be felt. The spirit of Meerlust had never been more subtly intoxicating.

There are times when silence is better than any other words in the dictionary...

Concedimi la serenità di accettare le cose che non posso cambiare, il coraggio di cambiare le cose che posso cambiare e la saggezza di capirne la differenza.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

Frank Costanza

Please take comfort in knowing that, "Evertyhing was beautiful, and nothing hurt...

Therefore remember: Always fall asleep with peaceful and harmonious thoughts or with thoughts of success, health and inner peacefulness.

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

don't sit on your patio in the high noon of your tranquility and make light of the huts that people build in the midnight of their desperation.

Peace means far more than the opposite of war.

peace isn't just where there is no noise, no trouble, no hard work. Peace is when you can be in the midst of all those things and still be calm.

The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can tell you deliverance will not come from the rushing noisy centers of civilization. It will come from the lonely places.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

He had the saffron robes, the shaved head, and that mellow spiritual way of talking that let you know here was a guy who had truly achieved a rare state of inner with-it-ness.

A quiet room is best for zazen. We shouldn't eat or drink too much, or too little. Put aside everything else. Don't think of good or bad. Don't judge your practice. Stop ruminating and deliberating about stuff. Don't try to become a Buddha.

She loved most being in the woods with the diffused light and the quiet there. Such a stillness, with just the pecking of ground birds and forest animals, the flutter of wings, the occasional skittering of squirrels playing up and down a tree. The silent, imperceptible unfurling of spring buds into blossom. She felt comfortable there. As if nothing could be unnatural in that place, within but apart from the world.

Above silence, the illuminating storms—dying storms—illuminate the silence above.