Quotes About Tranquility

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition . . .

Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely?

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature

As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose

You can always find a way forward if theres no turning back, don't get stuck somewhere in between. Train yourself to remain calm under all circumstances. Only in tranquillity can we find the way out.

Always take the path with the least amount of conflict.

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts

Life has taught me that to be Happy one must attain Peace. For without Peace, there can be no Happiness.

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with a quiet suggestion of infinity...

In a world thronged with monsters and with gods, we are barely conscious of tranquillity.

After leaving this park the Vivonne began to flow again more swiftly. How often have I watched, and longed to imitate, when I should be free to live as I chose, a rower who had shipped his oars and lay stretched out on his back, his head down, in the bottom of his boat, letting it drift with the current, seeing nothing but the sky which slipped quietly above him, shewing upon his features a foretaste of happiness and peace.

Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue.

Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains. . .But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree. . .when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself.

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

"Let your occupations be few," says the sage,"if you would lead a tranquil life."

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.

It is his vegetable ambition never to stir.