Quotes About Tranquility

The rest of the time, I don't do so much thinkin'. 'Cuz if I did, I'd go running back to where things is simple. You see?

So warm. Comfortable. And strikingly unfamiliar. What was this peace? This place without fear?

And rushlessness was the very most practical of emotions.

Anxiety is extremely contagious, but so is calm.

Harriet Lerner says, "Anxiety is extremely contagious, but so is calm.

Silence is not simply the absence of noise or the shutdown of communication with the outside world, but rather a process of coming to stillness.

Coming to interior stillness requires waiting.

And so in mountain solitudes — o'ertaken As by some spell divine — Their cares dropped from them like the needles shaken From out the gusty pine.

I recommend that you begin with short ten-minute meditation periods, once or twice a day, and over several weeks gradually lengthen your meditation periods to twenty-five minutes, even if you can only find time to do this once a day. Even for an experienced meditator, it often takes ten or fifteen minutes to really settle into a meditative state, and so it is not surprising that the minimum length of time for a meditation period in temples and monasteries is usually twenty-five minutes.

I just want to feel immaculate for a few minutes a day

Perhaps tranquility is what distinguishes the environment in which wealthy people live, he thought. - Kurt Wallander

Peace is first of all the art of being.

Silence is the discipline that helps us to go beyond the entertainment quality of our lives.

It had brought me into touch with something within me that lies far beyond the ups and downs of a busy life, something that represents the ongoing yearning of the human spirit, the yearning for a final return, an unambiguous sense of safety, a lasting home.

I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.

A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in

Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.

Let me live where I will, on this side is the city, on that the wilderness, and ever I am leaving the city more and more, and withdrawing into the wilderness.

There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

My life is like a stroll upon the beach, as near to the ocean's edge as I can go.

It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.