Quotes About Tranquility

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Anybody can be good in the country.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.

The clearest evidence that God's grace is at work in our hearts is that we do not get into panics.

Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying, once and for all.

In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Les hommes les plus sains d'esprits ne sont que des fous tranquilles.

Solitude is the source of happiness

The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

Stillness is the altar of spirit.

un ruido sin ruido hecho de mil murmullos indistintos.

Por vezes é suficiente a bruma ou a montanha. Por vezes uma árvore que se inclina sob as rajadas do vento é suficiente. Por vezes a noite é suficiente, e não o sonho que torna presente à alma aquilo que lhe falta ou que perdeu.

Now at this hour, when the cirrus clouds stretched like crimson ribbons high across the southwest sky, in such a hush that not even a playful eddy dared stir moss or palm fronds, the day died in calm and in beauty.

Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

Can you hear the silence? It's the good kind of silence, not the silence that listens back.

They were surrounded by mountains and forest. There were no nearby houses. The closest neighbor was a half mile away.

There was in the meeting-house a wood quiet. It was the quiet of trees that have been brought in out of the wind, whose new-shown limbs reach out, not to the sky but to the people. This is the quiet, still, otherness of trees found by the carver, the shaper, the maker.

Twenty minutes into our walk away from the wall put us deep in a forest of fir, pine, cottonwood, and aspen trees. The lush forest floor was alive and danced with shadows cast from an endless parade of swaying trees. As we approached early evening it was cool and peaceful. The sound of the trees moving in the wind high above seemed like a friendly traveling companion, calling us farther and farther into the depths of the forest.

The best way for a person to live, according to Taoism, is to submit to whatever life brings and be flexible.