Quotes About Tranquility

Je ramène les pans de mon manteau. Je m'allonge dans la neige. J'écoute siffler le vent. Je regarde le ciel bas. Une profonde paix descend en moi.

When the sun dipped behind the wall of trees, we lay down and the white night swallowed us. It has been night ever since.

May our sanctuary provide us with continued protection and strength,

May our sanctuary give us sustenance and nurture us.

And may our sanctuary always give us peace.

I'm easy like Sunday morning.

Maybe, I think, happiness is simply order.

Her feet tingled. One whole hour to forget about the leaky kitchen sink, her father's retirement party, and her mother's relentless questions about it. She closed her eyes. One whole hour to completely unwind and indulge her thoughts in something beside caterers, plumbers, and homicide cases.

the sheep and the sea and the sweet meadow air.

My favourite place in the world to run is Stanley Park in Vancouver. One loop around there is perfect.

By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace.

Abjure all accretions and turn off the lights. Put on some music - Leonard Cohen, say, perhaps his 'Various Positions' - and let your mind cool down. Soon you'll forget there's a word called 'stress.'

I'm a peaceful creature; I'm vegetarian. I don't like wars.

I love Hexham, where I live. And 'Grantchester' reminds me of Hexham a lot. Everything is alive; the birdsong, the flowers, the vegetation.

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.

If you ever go there, go to the Philosopher's walk. Away from all the tourists and crowds. It's a place that smells of that most beautiful smell, the smell of thought.

I went to the CD player, choosing some soft and soothing soprano sax, courtesy of the late Art Porter.

She was the still point in the turning world.

Still point of the turning world.

Saying their names seemed to calm him, as though he were uttering incantations: lorazepam, diazepam, chlorpromazine, chlordiazepoxide, haloperidol.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain cool and unruffled under all circumstances. —Thomas Jefferson

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn't feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad.

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