Quotes About Tranquility

Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us glossy and colorful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality.

This day I choose to spend in perfect peace.

In order to experience peace instead of conflict, it is necessary to shift our perception.

Come, lay thy head upon my breast, And I will kiss thee into rest.

Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers, fears, or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled, the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated, the spark and brilliance are also gone.

Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.

And 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.

Rocked in the cradle of the deep, I lay me down in peace to sleep.

He who would be happy should stay at home.

Silence sweeter is than speech.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart.

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity, and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.

Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!

To all, to each, a fair goodnight, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

She slept the sleep of the just.

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.

Out of the strain of the Doing, into the peace of the Done.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old church in the country.