Quotes About Tranquility

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, the October woods!

Leave this military hurry and adopt the pace of Nature. Her secret is patience.

We all possess the thunder of pure fury and the calm breeze of tranquility. If it wasn't for tomorrow, how much would we get done today? Whatever your purpose... embrace it completely. Get lost in the clouds every now and then so you never lose sight of God's wonder.

The sound of the rain needs no translation.

California's redwood forests are famous for being home to the tallest living things on the planet, but there's much more to these extraordinary woodlands than the size of the trees. At their best, redwood forests are suffused with a sense of openness and serenity. Sun-dappled, elegantly fluted tree trunks shoot straight as an arrow into the sky, while below are burbling streams, spectacular fallen trunks, and a lush accumulation of ferns, sorrel, moss, and lichen.

Forecast for the Seasons spring — giddy and warm summer — happy and hot autumn — serene and chilly winter — blessed and freezing

After satisfaction, desire reposes in a cool and lucid sleep.

Silence is a fence around wisdom.

Silence is the uninterrupted sound of forever.

May sleep envelop you as a bed sheet floating gently down, tickling your skin and removing every worry. Reminding you to consider only this moment.

I had napped... earlier — dropping into a dreamless void as soon as the adrenaline left my system...

Smoke your pipe and be silent; there's only wind and smoke in the world.

When snow falls, nature listens.

Grabschrift auf einen Gehenkten Hier ruht er, wenn der Wind nicht weht!

The awesome silence of the place crept up on her. The spruce and pines, all still laden with snow, spread their limbs in a frozen ballet, breathing a ghostly incense from dark, arid chapels sheltered by their branches.

The dead do not squabble as this land's rulers do. The dead do not fight one another. The dead have no desires, no petty jealousies or ambitions. A world of the dead is a world at peace…

One minute of patience, ten years of peace

Kate had made both the environment and the body for him, and he liked the tranquil mood of the piece. There was no invented family, no role to play; this was a painting, not a drama. One place, one moment, lasting as long as he chose to inhabit it.

Isn't it better to live in ignorance of everything--asphalt and macadam, vehicles, telephones, televisions--to live in bliss without knowing it?

Ignorance is bliss," Travers said. "Yes. Very appropriate cliché.

Terror melting into wonder, then slipping into peace.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

Relaxation is… a state between waking and sleeping, where the body is completely still and the mind is allowed to flow freely from one thought to another, or alternately, a state in which the mind becomes inadvertently calm.

The building blocks of meditation are relaxation and concentration. If you cannot relax, you cannot meditate. If you cannot concentrate, you cannot meditate. No exceptions.