Quotes About Tranquility

Calmness is power.

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.

Silence. In the gardens and homes designed by me, I have always endeavored to allow for the interior placid murmur of silence, and in my fountains, silence sings.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

El bar es para mí un lugar de meditación y recogimiento, sin el cual la vida es inconcebible.

In silence lies safety.

We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.

E tranquilidade era aquilo, aquela quietude sob a qual a vida palpitava

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees.

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When we set our minds on the things of God, we will have direct and immediate access to the peace of God.

My weight loss goal isn't a number on the scale. My real weight loss goal is peace.

Will this choice add to my peace or steal from it? Remember, nothing tastes as good as peace feels.

In the quiet, we feel safe enough to humble ourselves.

Philippians 4:7 holds a promise for us when we turn to God and allow His truth to fill us — our hearts are protected by peace: And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Isabeau had a garden insider of her.

In those paintings, angels clustered around the living and the dead who sit peaceably on thrones, making signs with their hands. Just outside the garden walls is regular life, there are normal streets with dogs and puddles, and merchants and money changers go about their business, and farmers are working in the fields, but inside those hidden, holy spaces, these solemn people are outside of time. They are beyond hurt, beyond wounding.

Life is an inside job and it is much easier if we let it go and get out of our own way!

All uncleanness seems washed clean in its lonely stretches ; the life-giving sun and ardent air must still bring singular joy, the eager morning breeze, the opalescent distance, the plaintive evening sky all will continue to tell an exquisite if inarticulate story. That Tripoli will remain, whatever the Powers may decree.

A garden did not need people in order to be alive and natural. The flowers might have died, and the last leaves might be falling, but the space was still redolent with the odors of life. It contained a thousand reassurances that no matter what one person's strife, the seasons continued their cycle.

Silêncio. Um centro negro e tranquilo absorvendo o caos para a sua quietude

I have heard that men who live by a waterfall cease to hear it—in such a way did I learn to live beside the rushing torrent if his doom.