Quotes About Tranquility

There is nothing better than to be headed into the mountains on a clean fresh day with the sun rising through the trees and good company and good talk and the sense of ease that comes from the knowledge that you are in somebody else's car and it is not your transmission that is going to get torn out on a big rock.

Nada le perturbaba el sueño. Todavía no tenía memoria.

J'avançais avec ce sentiment de légèreté qui vous prend quelque fois dans les rêves. Vous ne craignez plus rien, tous les dangers sont dérisoires.

It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.

No one can provide the heart it's own peace; you have to find it yourself.

I do it all the time now, reaching for the silence, making the thoughts and memories go away, and most of the time it works on the outside, too.

No breath of wind disturbed the surface of the water. So as we climbed out onto the fallen stone the stars reflected themselves in double fashion; as above, so below.

Offstage I worry and sweat. Onstage I am calm as a windless winter night.

She stepped the way the water moves within a gentle wave. Never mind the motion, the water stays unchanged. That was the proper way of things.

My head felt clear and light, like a leaf floating on the wind.

brushed the silence down the road like trailing autumn leaves.

the silence remained.

silence was his. This

soaking in the quiet until he was full of it, then taking it with him when he left.

I was perfectly content, lost among the endless books. It made me feel safe,

The door sat still as a mountain, quiet and indifferent as the sea on a windless day.

I am calm as a windless winter night.

Prefería abstenerse de ahondar en semejantes problemas , que le resultaban desagradables y solo conseguirían sumirle en la más penosa inseguridad e inquietud cuando, precisamente para servirse de la razón, necesitaba gozar de seguridad y sosiego.

La desgracia del hombre se debe a que no quiere permanecer tranquilo en su habitación, que es su hogar

comfortable room, knowing

It is said that the only thing deeper than the sleep of the just is the sleep of the just after, but

For several hours we were thrown and battered — till suddenly calm felt — the calmest calm I have ever experienced at sea. God had willed us to enter the eye — you know about it? the still centre of the storm — where we lay at rest — surrounded by hundreds of seabirds, also resting on the water.

Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.

Nothing bothered me, not even the things that bothered me.