Quotes About Tranquility

Meren vihaiset vihertävät värit olivat muuttuneet rauhallisen sinisiksi, ja aallot kantoivat vaahtokruunujaan pikemmin koristeina kuin uhkauksina.

Siinä on jotakin hyvin hienoa, kun saa kokea viimeisen vanhuutensa maiseman katoavassa kesässä. Ympärillä tyyntyy, itse kukin vaeltaa omaa tietään, mutta kaikki me kohtaamme meren rannalla tyynessä iltaruskossa.

Mumintrollets pappa hade aldrig känt sig så lugn och så absolut nöjd med allting. Det var egentligen skönt att ingenting behöva säga och ingenting förklara, varken för sig själv eller andra. Man bara satt och såg mot horisonten och hörde vågorna klucka under båten.

I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream!

Things are much more pleasant when you stop being angry.

Everything is as it should be.

blue. True? False? What's the coolest thing

Not thinking sounded pretty appealing right now.

I'm calm!" Cricket said. She realized she was bouncing on her front talons and forced herself to sit on her tail and stay still. "SO TOTALLY CALM.

for? There was a moment of silence down below, and

Even warriors put their spears down on sundays.

First there was the sky, high, pure and of a darker blue than he had ever seen. And then there was the sea, a lighter, immensely luminous blue that reflected blue into the air, the shadows and the sails; a sea that stretched away immeasurably when the surge raised the frigate high, showing an orderly array of great crests, each three furlongs from its predecessor, and all sweeping eastwards in an even, majestic procession.

It all gave a pleasant illusion of eternity, this quiet sailing under a perfect sky towards a horizon perpetually five miles ahead, never nearer.

Surrender the grasping disposition of selfishness, and you will attain to that calm state of mind which conveys perfect peace, goodness, and wisdom.

an avoidance of confrontation and a sustaining refuge in the comforts of family life.

But I was not looking for repose or tranquility. This weekend was an aberration. It is pleasant in Mexico to sit by the beach, inert and sunlit, sipping a mojito, but who wants to hear about that? What you crave in reading a travel narrative is the unexpected, a taste of fear, the sudden emergence by the roadside of a wicked policeman, threatening harm.

spent the rest of the morning in the gardens on my own, loving the solitude

the susurrus slowly dying away to a vibrant silence.

Write the story of a contemporary cured of his heartbreaks solely by long contemplation of a landscape

Life is one long training session, in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning, there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.

Serenity comes from the heart. Although the heart is often tormented by thoughts of insecurity, it knows that - through correct posture - it will be able to do its best.

Empty your mind, stop thinking about anything, simply be.

When we renounce our dreams, we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquility, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us and to infect the whole atmosphere in which we live. What we hoped to avoid in the Fight - disappointment and defeat - become the sole legacy of our cowardice.

and comforted by his greater wisdom he fell asleep again deeply in the darkness and the stillness.