Quotes About Tranquility

Love doesn't keep you in a constant state of turmoil. It gives you peace.

Why were there no cries of birds, no sounds of life, other than the incessant murmur of the brooding pines?

I could only think of you as being very distant and beautiful and calm. A lighthouse in clean waters.

He was part of the infinite. The tree and the rock and the water. The rising of the sun and the running of the deer.

Another day where nothing has happened, he thought. That was a good thing, he reminded himself. What was the Chinese curse? May you live in interesting times.

A thousand hills, but no birds in flight, Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks. A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man, Fishing alone in the cold river snow.

A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man's most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless.

For every man, peace of soul is precious.

He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

Sometimes a man doesn't know what to do about things and sometimes it's best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.

Every calm and quiet place is the true temple of the wise man!

Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.