Quotes About Tranquility

To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.

The night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.

Far from gay cities, and the way of men.

For him who has no concentration, there is no tranquility.

When one devotes oneself to meditation, mental burdens, unnecessary worries, and wandering thoughts drop off one by one; life seems to run smoothly and pleasantly. A student may now depend on intuition to make decisions. As one acts on intuition, second thought, with its dualism, doubt and hesitation, does not arise.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

All the great pleasures in life are silent.

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well-nestled in bed and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs are tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labor of the day is gone.

Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.

Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.

One is nearer God's heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will have it if they cannot find it.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still warm waters.

Catching something is purely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves all fear and anxiety.

I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.

The temple of silence and reconciliation.

Back of tranquility lies always captured unhappiness.

We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition.

Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.