Quotes About Tranquility

She preferred to lie up by the dunes with the waves bursting, to listen while they crashed like the final chords of a symphony except they went on and on. There was nothing as fine as that.

Why do you live on the bank of a river?' was one of these questions. 'Because a poem in a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.

To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.

Many Years before without the New Technologies Life was more Peaceful and Simpler.

Whenever he had a problem, he found that being near the water put things in perspective.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Let us have the luxury of silence.

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

Fanny spoke her feelings. Here's harmony! said she; here's repose! Here's what may leave all painting and all music behind, and what may tranquillise every care, and lift the heart to rapture! When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

She talked to her, listened to her, read to her; and the tranquillity of such evenings, her perfect security in such a tête-à-tête from any sound of unkindness, was unspeakably welcome to a mind which had seldom known a pause in its alarms or embarrassments.

I shall be glad to have the library to myself as soon as may be.

She wanted to be alone. Her mind was in a state of flutter and wonder, which made it impossible for her to be collected. She was in dancing, singing, exclaiming spirits; and till she had moved about, and talked to herself, and laughed and reflected, she could be fit for nothing rational.

I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you there may be peace. You will not want to be talked to. Let us have the luxury of silence.

In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free from them there

Oh! Miss Woodhouse, the comfort of being sometimes alone!

There is nothing like stying at home for real comfort

Nothing was so likely to do her good as a little quiet cheerfulness at home.

People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.

Peace starts within. (Jane Goodall).

Sometimes not thinking too hard is the easiest thing of all.

I was built for comfort, not for speed