Quotes About Tranquility

I want to make a forest of a moment and live in that forest for ever

to be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act

Her mind felt different here. She thought a lot in this life, but her thoughts were gentle.

Dar certurile erau doar la suprafata. Daca te scufunzi indeajuns sub un val, apa e inca linistita.

I want you to Slow down I just want it all To slow down; I want to make a forest Of a moment And live in that forest For ever Before you go

Peace, peace is what I seek and public calm, Endless extinction of unhappy hates.

Strew on her roses, roses,And never a spray of yew!In quiet she reposes;Ah, would that I did too!

Creep into thy narrow bed,Creep, and let no more be said!

Humid the air! Leafless, yet soft as spring. The tender purple spray on copse and briers! And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, she needs not June for beauty's heightening. Lovely all the time she lies...

Gracious souls wish to retire from the hurry and bustle of this world, that they may sweetly enjoy God and themselves; and, if there be any true peace on this side heaven, it is they that enjoy it in those retirements. This makes death desirable to a child of God, that it is a final escape from all the storms and tempests of this world to perfect and everlasting rest.

The reason is that for so many years he has been developing a deep reserve of internal calm, so deep that the external unrest cannot disturb it. Interior calm gives birth to calm action.

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. – William Penn –

El desapego es la fuerza tranquila de quien está decidido a no dejarse arrastrar por los pensamientos ni acaparar por toda clase de actividades y de ambiciones triviales, que devoran su tiempo y en definitiva solo aportan satisfacciones menores y efímeras.

Happiness is thus viewed as being just a deceptively calm moment in the middle of a storm.

A glacier is like a river; the level places where it spreads out tranquilly are followed by turbulent falls.

There is always a wonderful silence here…. One could hear the water sleep….

And in the past there is so blessedly nothing for us to worry about. Everything is settled.

I've come here for the silence," he said. "Silence," repeated

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence...

make for yourself at least a little corner, somewhere in the great world, where you may unbosom and be kind.

Sleep quietly, now that the gates of the day are closed. Leave tomorrow's problems for tomorrow. The earth is peaceful. Only the stars are abroad; and they will not cause you any trouble.

Política como vocación) La pasión no convierte al hombre en político si no está al servicio de una «causa» y no hace de la responsabilidad para con esa causa la estrella que oriente la acción. Para eso se necesita (y esta es la cualidad psicológica decisiva para el político) la mesura, capacidad para dejar que la realidad actúe sobre uno sin perder el recogimiento y la tranquilidad.

Ve? dugo se u meni miješa vrijeme i prostor, pa ne znam gdje sam, ni kad se to desilo što mislim. Ne postoje granice, kao u pustinji, kao na nebu, i sje?anja mirno prelaze, smještaju?i se ondje gdje im je zgodnije. Li?e na oblake, svejedno im je gdje su, svejedno im je kad nastanu i kad nestanu. To mi ne smeta, ?ak je ugodno: ne osje?am potrebu da išta razrješavam.