Quotes About Tranquility

The evening sky was awash with peach, apricot, cream: tender little ice-cream clouds in a wide orange sky.

adjusting her balance like a wave rider in the Peaceable Ocean.

The music I play after dinner is not a relief from the silence but something like its substantiation: listening to music for an hour or two every evening doesn't deprive me of the silence — the music is the silence coming true.

The land is an endless plain of yellow and pink. Even the slightest whisper of wind sends ripples of color shimmering across the land.

I close my eyes and feel it running down my skin and for a while I can forget the noise in my head.

The same grace that transports us to heaven also gives us composure when our flights are delayed or the traffic is jammed up.

He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace, be still!" And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. MARK 4:39

Blaise Pascal is reported to have said, "All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

The yellow bedspread he sleeps upon is slowly changing to the gentle quiet gold of his breath

I have always found peace among books.

rest, v. and n. Rest with me for the rest of this. That's it. Come closer. We're here.

The quiet times are the ones to hold on to.

The air feels cleaner because when the world is below we allow ourselves to breathe fully. When no one else is around, we open ourselves to the quieter astonishments that enormity can offer.

He was beautiful in the way that a breeze is beautiful – the kind of beauty you feel gratitude for.

You can understand conflict, but you don'thave to live in it.

La paz viene con la total entrega interior a lo que es.

all had the air of a second home, one devoted to leisure rather than struggle.

A guy needs a place where he can gaze into the ocean and sort things out." It

I think that is what a national park is all about. It gives people breathing room. It gives people a tranquil atmosphere. It gives them an opportunity to be a part of nature, You're just part of it all. - Juanita Green

I have found my church, and it is at the end of a long trail on a distant mountainship. It is there that I feel most at peace, entirely content and whole.

Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace

Without trust, there can be no tranquil resting of the mind.

tiptoe to the water's edge. They show their raiments.

Here in our mountains, the snow falls even on the maple leaves.