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Quotes About Tranquility

A única coisa que pode lhe trazer paz é você mesmo.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Snow reminds Ka of God! But I'm not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is the silence of snow.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Hiçbir ÅŸey, her ÅŸeyi unutabilmenin verdiÄŸi huzurdan deÄŸerli olamaz.
~ Orhan Pamuk
When there is not a breath of wind, the waters sometimes shudder as if from inside and take on the finish of washed silk.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Na konci dlhého d?a a ve?era, preplneného ?u?mi, môcÃ…Â¥ sedieÃ…Â¥ sám v kresle a byÃ…Â¥ samým sebou...Bolo to ako príchod z dlhej cesty plnej dobrodružstiev...ako návrat domov.
~ Orhan Pamuk
What I want, he said softly, is to stand in this meadow and walk in the light of the sun.
~ Orson Scott Card
I need to find out if I'm as good at peace as I am at war
~ Orson Scott Card
Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. You can help me. You can open for me the portals of death's house, for love is always with you, and love is stronger than death is.
~ Oscar Wilde
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
~ Oscar Wilde
But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.
~ Oscar Wilde
The sky was pure opal now.
~ Oscar Wilde
Todo mal tienes dos remedios; el tiempo y el silencio.
~ Conde de Monte.Cristo
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
~ Confucius
Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their States were rightly governed. Their States being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.
~ Confucius
The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.
~ Confucius
With coarse grain to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow: I still have joy in the midst of these things
~ Confucius
Peace out, rainbow trout.
~ Conrad Williams
Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world's more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a good deal more mysterious.
~ Cornelia Funke
And all was well.
~ Cornelia Funke
Yes I do enjoy walking at night. The world's a lot more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a great deal more mysterious
~ Cornelia Funke
Es schneite, als sie ans Seeufer ins Freie traten, und hinter ihnen verschwand die Burg zwischen den wirbelden Flecken, als löse sie sich auf in Weiß. Die Welt um sie her war so still, als hätte sie alle Worte aufgebraucht, als wäre nun alles erzählt, was es in dieser Welt zu erzählen gab.
~ Cornelia Funke
For one short moment he had a crazy urge to lie down on one of the mattresses, to light a few of the many candles around the place, and to forget everything that had happened since his ninth birthday.
~ Cornelia Funke
I liked being around other people during the day, and I was relieved to be alone late at night; it was the latter that made the former possible. In fact, setting up my nest often made me think of a Wordsworth phrase I'd learned in English class as a high school junior: emotion recollected in tranquillity.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Wordsworth phrase I'd learned in English class as a high school junior: emotion recollected in tranquillity.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld