Quotes About Tranquility

Nothing is more useful than silence.

O que importa não é passear de noite mas deixar a noite passear-se em nós.

Naquele sossego, a única coisa que apetece é fazer demorar o tempo.

Afinal, eu estava como dizia o cantador da aldeia: no sossego, sou cego; na timaca (confusão) não vejo

o tempo é o único remédio.

The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal.

switched it off. He fell asleep holding Pin's kingfisher in his hand.

Jednostavno je ratovati,najteže je održati mir.

That silence intimidates puzzles me. Silence is to me normal, comfortable." Later he added, "I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet.

If you like solitude, you're never alone.

What I miss most in the woods," Knight said, "is somewhere in between quiet and solitude. What I miss most is stillness." To reach this pristine state, the forest hard-frozen and the animals hunkered, he had to bring himself to the brink of death.

Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching (I recommend the Red Pine translation), and started swimming from there. Excellent

Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, wrote that nothing can be expressed about solitude "that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

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Sit in silence and the world is yours.

To enjoy happiness, therefore, all our mind need do is to cease all activity, returning calmly to its natural state of inactive being, as it does daily in deep sleep.

Sleep is the best meditation." ? Dalai Lama Quote

After this night is over, then you can drift away, they you can sleep for ever, for nothing will ever matter again.

A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.

Peace is found neither in hot blood nor in cold sweat," Nova said.

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

Cuando la gente envejece, necesita pensar en cosas dulces y tranquilizadoras. Imaginar que algo hermoso nos espera en el cielo. En fin, que se entrenan un poquito para la muerte. Si no son ni demasiado imbéciles ni demasiado ricos.

Eu suspeitava que o que o atraía no mosteiro não era tanto a possibilidade de escapar ao chamamento dos prazeres carnais, mas sobretudo a possibilidade de se livrar da esgotante e taciturna sucessão de pequenas preocupações da vida quotidiana (...). Ao menos, no mosteiro, dão-nos cama, mesa e roupa lavada - e como bónus, no melhor dos casos, a vida eterna.

En una palabra, debemos alcanzar la libertad de la indiferencia, condición que hace posible la perfecta serenidad.