Quotes About Tranquility

I want night, deep ambrosial night.

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all.

Nada puede contribuir tanto a la tranquilidad del alma como no tener opinión alguna.

In den einsamen Stunden des Geistes ist es schön in der Sonne zu gehn, an den gelben Mauern des Sommers hin

So quiet are the green woods Of our homeland, The crystalline wave Dying away by the ruined wall, And we wept in sleep; Wandering with timid steps Down past the thorny thicket, Singers in summer's eve, In the sacred peace Of the far resplendent vineyard; Shadows now in the cool womb Of night, grief-stricken eagles. As gently does a moonlit beam close The scarlet scars of melancholy.

Life for the living, and rest for the dead!

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

Rock an stane lay glisterin on aa the heichs abune. Cool an kind an whisperin it drifted gently doon, till hill an howe war rowed in it, an land an sea were gane. Aa was still an saft an silent in the smoky smir o rain.

Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit.

Thoughts crawled around my head in all directions like big lazy caterpillars. I gave up, closed my eyes, and let myself drift.

It taught me that for every period of stress there must be a time of rest and contemplation.

I could do this. I just had to stay cool. Zen. No punching in the face. Punching would not be Zen.

She shook her head. "Matias, do you ever relax? Do you even know what that word means?" He smiled. "I do. I have even been known to allow myself a sensible chuckle on occasion.

To exist in peace, we have to sacrifice that violence.

grasses swayed gently, giving

The spiritual aspect of valor is evidenced by composure—calm presence of mind. Tranquility is courage in repose.

Nel cuore di ogni uomo e di ogni donna resta una specie di Eden dove non ci sono né morte né guerre, dove le belve e le cerbiatte giocano in pace. Si tratta solo di ritrovare quel paradiso, rifiutando di vedere tutto il resto

This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart...

a meadow which David had known before the coming of the motorway, where he had searched for mushrooms in previous autumns, in lost quiet golden hazes.

Village life can be terribly unpeaceful!

There was a kind of sleeping or half-sleeping which I sometimes tried to achieve (especially at weekends) when I lay like a floating turtle, just breaking the surface of consciousness, aware and yet not self-aware, not yet tormented by being a particular person.

where an iron bedstead was wrapped in stillness.

Franca breathed the tranquility of the house, yet it was not tranquil, she breathed its goodness, but it was not good.