Quotes About Tranquility

Who is there that can make muddy water clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will become clear of itself.

What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.

One of the best lessons you can learn in life is to master how to remain calm. Calm is a super power.

cause down the shore everything's all right

A piactéren álló ház els? emeleti lakásán nap mint nap végigvonult az egész hatalmas nyár: rezg? léglombikok csöndje, forró álmukat alvó fényes négyszögek a padlón; a nappal tárházának legmélyéb?l kiszabadult verklidallam; egy zongorarefrén újra meg újra felhangzó két-három taktusa napfénybe ájultan a fehér kövezeten, a nappal mélyének tüzébe veszve.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

On the still calm waters of surrender the reflections of clarity appear

Let it all go and enjoy the profound gifts found in your quiet places.

Peace IS Prosperity.

The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

The greatest prayer is patience

If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Those who have destroyed the roots of jealousy have peace of mind always.

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth—So

There you stand, lost in the infinite series of the sea, with nothing ruffled but the waves. The tranced ship indolently rolls; the drowsy trade winds blow; everything resolves you into languor. For

I pray for peace—for motionlessness—for the feeling of myself, as of some plant, absorbing life without seeking it, and existing without individual sensation

Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries - stand that man on his legs, let his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region... Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow heaving swells; seated in his boat, light as a birch canoe; and so sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves, that like hearth-stone cats they purr against the gunwale; these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.

Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded forever.

Y si uno es un filósofo, aunque esté sentado en una lancha ballenera no sentirá un ápice más de terror que sentado ante el fuego del anochecer, con un atizador y no un arpón al lado.

Podéis captar la expresión de ese cachalote, allí? Es la misma con que murió, sólo que algunas de las más largas arrugas de la frente ahora se diría que se han borrado. Me parece que esta ancha frente está llena de una placidez de dehesa, nacida de una indiferencia filosófica hacia la muerte.