Quotes About Tranquility

Victory,' she said, 'means peace.

Peace is a verb.

When you have been dead and buried Many things worry you But nothing frightens you.

Osaka: Ah always wanted to go to the ocean and rifd a dolphin. Sakaki: ...That would be nice. Osaka: Ah know, right? (Osaka and Sakaki stare at the ocean lost in thought; Sakaki imagining riding a dolphin). Yomi: Look at you two space cadets. What's going on? Osaka: We was thinkin' 'bout 'Roids. Sakaki: Eh... No... =,o

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

In its eyethe far-off hills are mirrored—dragonfly!

the snail gets up and goes to bed with very little fuss

Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.

I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity

My idea of outdoor activity is taking my book outside

As if sometimes the world really did amount to a quiet arrangement.

Learn how to exhale, the inhale will take care of itself.

stifle forever; lower your weapon and look into the clear bright

No," said Father. "Just do the best you can and don't let it worry you. In that way you'll have a clear conscience and a tranquil heart.

But the delight of wading that clear mountain water, scrambling over rocks, or sitting on a boulder in the sunshine and gazing with dreaming eyes into the brown pebbled pools below, was enough joy without feeling the tug of a trout on the end of the line. Often we could see them in the sun-flecked depths below, quiet as shadows except for the occasional waving of a fin.

everything else fell away,

To be "on edge," you are literally not centered — not being in your spiritual center.

Beyond the reef's white surf the water was a deep blue, as if in shadow, but in here it was emerald so dazzling you'd think the sand below contained a source of energy as strong as the sun.

I wanted to shut my mind, that my thoughts might close on my own peace, I wanted to close the peace of my love in my heart like dew in a dark rose." From "Philip Speaks

No one can be so recollected, so tranquil, that he can be a contemplative in the world, a contemplative of Christ in his own heart, unless at the very outset he finds a cure for fear.

but quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.