Quotes About Tranquility

Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.

Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind.

Only rarely, at the end of our century, does life offer up a vision as pure and peaceful as this one: a solitary man on a bucket, fishing through eighteen inches of ice in a lake that's constantly turning over its water atop an arcadian mountain in America.

I relish the sense of being alone with nature, knowing that of all people in the world only I am hearing these sounds in this place. The tranquil mood feels vaguely religious, what I should be feeling in church but rarely do. In

The quieter the mind," said Meister Eckhart, "the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is.

Be still and know that I am God." I read in this familiar verse from Psalm 46 two commands of equal importance. First, I must be still, something that modern life conspires against. Ten years ago I responded to letters within a couple of weeks and kept my correspondents happy. Five years ago I faxed a response in a couple of days and they seemed content. Now they want email responses the same day and berate me for not using instant messaging or a mobile phone.

Like all great readers, he could create for himself a wall of stillness.

Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

There is hardly more than the eyes, the open air, the grass and the water in the distance . . .

What else can one do in the time before sunset?

aos seres humanos a paz, ao mar a calma; Aos ventos o repouso, e na nossa dor o sono.

Of old the saying, "Nothing too much," appeared to be, and really was, well said. For he whose happiness rests with himself, if possible, wholly, and if not, as far as is possible,—who is not hanging in suspense on other men, or changing with the vicissitude of their fortune,—has his life ordered for the best.

The latrine is an oasis of peace.

Se è vero che non c'è maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria, è altrettanto vero che rievocare un'angoscia ad animo tranquillo, seduti quieti alla scrivania, è fonte di soddisfazione profonda.

Se è vero che non c'è maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria, è altrettanto vero che rievocare un'angoscia ad animo tranquillo, seduti quieti alla scrivania, è fonte di soddisfazione profonda.

Horas non numero nisi serenas.

He'd been happier in abandoned places, so long as they were quiet and had enough light to read by.

It began to feel almost benign, these calm days in the sun.

La claridad que la filosofía ofrece lleva a la superación serena de la ansiedad que carcome al hombre.

Pain is all I know. He murmured. Peace is all I want

I need useful work to keep my mind occupied, but I'd like to find work where it's...quieter.

The mild wind made the trees sway gently, in a lullaby rhythm, and the resultant susurration was like the soft sighs and dreamy murmurs of a thousand peacefully slumbering children.

If you're still, and if you don't hope too much, peace will come to you. It's a grace.

Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.