Quotes About Tranquility

She stood to drink in the darkness and the air fallen still after a snowfall. The clouds had all blown away. Faint moonlight silvered the fresh snow. Stars shone in a black sky, like jewels on a Lady's cloak. The garden lay shrouded in silver white silence, all its roughness made smooth. Such snow, Gwyn thought, had a way of turning the world into what it was not and making it seem safe. Such snow masked the true face of the world.

With Mrs. Morel it was one of those still moments when the small frets vanish, and the beauty of things stands out, and she had the peace and the strength to see herself.

She clung in a sudden anguish of terror. But it came with a strange slow thrust of peace, the dark thrust of peace and a ponderous, primordial tenderness, such as made the world in the beginning.

Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains

SEVEN WAYS TO PEACE AND HAPPINESS

For all I know God may be nothing more or nothing less than the sound of the moving water outside your window.

The key to serenity is forgiveness.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.

I am he that walks with the tender and growing night, I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night. Press close bare-bosom'd night—press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds—night of the large few stars! Still nodding night—mad naked summer night. — Walt Whitman, from "Song of Myself, 21," Leaves of Grass: The Deathbed Edition (BOMC, 1992)

Lilac and star and bird twined with the chant of my soul, There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim.

Here by myself away from the clank of the world,   Tallying and talk'd to here by tongues aromatic

There is, in sanest hours, a consciousness, a thought that rises, independent, lifted out from all else, calm, like the stars, shining eternal

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood

the calm in the vortex.

Elbridge Gerry, arguing against a large standing army, lasciviously compared it to a standing penis: "An excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.

Loch Tay; and

Get some rest.

When there is silence, one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.

I can choose peace rather than this.

Let your heart be at peace.

Every person has the inherent capacity to spark massive changes that can lead to the tranquility, harmony, and peace that are our heritage.

a few quiet moments in nature can bring about a radical shift in the most disagreeable of circumstances.