Quotes About Tranquility

The lake sometimes has a mind of its own; there's no telling how it might treat you.

Hild slipped away to sit in the moon shadow of a tufted dune with the sheathed knife in her lap and listen to the night breeze in the grass and think about nothing in particular.

The fact that nothing in this world fulfills us does not prevent us from longing for a world that is less ignoble and less ugly. In a well-tended garden the soul observes with nobler tranquility the initial onslaught of winter.

Tu sais que t'es chez toi quand t'as trouvé un trou où calancher en paix.

Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.

and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.

Un artista anche nell'angoscia esprime tranquillità.

A quiet mind is all you need.

It does not matter much what happens, for ultimately the return to balance and harmony is inevitable. The heart of things is at peace.

The more my mind began to quiet, the more I found myself wanting to be surrounded by natural beauty.

The most peaceful memory I have is of when I drown.

Men seek retreats for themselves in country places, on beaches and mountains, and you yourself are wont to long for such retreats, but that is altogether unenlightened when it is possible at any hour you please to find a retreat within yourself. For nowhere can a man withdraw to a more untroubled quietude than in his own soul.12

Men seek retreats for themselves in country places, on beaches and mountains, and you yourself are wont to long for such retreats, but that is altogether unenlightened when it is possible at any hour you please to find a retreat within yourself. For nowhere can a man withdraw to a more untroubled quietude than in his own soul.

She slowly sinks into gentleness

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

The winds of change can often blow with calmness and grace.

Everything is so soft here,' he said, 'so easy...' 'I know

If I get reincarnated…, I wanna become a clam.

True peace cannot be achieved by force or by merely invoking the word "peace." It can only be attained by training the mind and learning to cultivate inner peace. Peace is a calm and gentle state of mind. - 17th Karmapa

The ideal lover of flowers is he who visits them in their native haunts, like Taoyuenming who sat before a broken bamboo fence in converse with the wild chrysanthemum, or Linwosing, losing himself amid mysterious fragrance as he wandered in the twilight among the plum-blossoms of the Western Lake. 'Tis said that Chowmushih slept in a boat so that his dreams might mingle with those of the lotus..

A cluster of summer trees, A bit of the sea, A pale evening moon. It is not difficult to gather his meaning. He wished to create the attitude of a newly-awakened soul still lingering amid shadowy dreams of the past, yet bathing in the sweet unconsciousness of a mellow spiritual light, and yearning for the freedom that lay in the expanse beyond.

There must be some sort of drugs. I'd like that. To stop me from feeling anything, or worrying, to let me sleep. Is that possible

Perhaps that's the whole point of prayer—to think to yourself in peace, to want nothing, to ask for nothing, but simply to sort out your own mind. That should be enough.

She is happy, because she doesn't have a single thought in her head, a single care, a single expectation or hope. It's a good feeling.