Quotes About Tranquility

I think I could turn and live with animals,' " he read aloud, "they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins….

baobab. Away in the distance I could see the cloud-softened

And after a time, I stopped struggling even internally against the prescribed quietness.

The oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the world the oppressors have created, and how little they question it.

em mim eu vejo o outro e outro e outro enfim dezenas trens passando vagões cheios de gente centenas o outro que há em mim é você você e você assim como eu estou em você eu estou nele em nós e só quando estamos em nós estamos em paz mesmo que estejamos a sós

For me, everything is cool.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

You hear the bird's gurgling? Which pleasure! which charm! The field has by me a thousand charms.

But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.

You are the sky. Everything else – it's just the weather.

You are the sky. Everything else—it's just the weather.

I was perfectly calm, I was the anchor of the world.

I could suddenly get a longing to be in a place where there was only silence. Years might go by and I did not think about it, but that does not mean that I did not long to be there. And now I am here, and it is almost exactly as I had imagined it.

All my life I have longed to be alone in a place like this. Even when everything was going well, as it often did. I can say that much. That it often did. I have been lucky. But even then, for instance in the middle of an embrace and someone whispering words in my ear I wanted to hear, I could suddenly get a longing to be in a place where there was only silence.

He has outsoared the shadow of our night;Envy and calumny and hate and pain,And that unrest which men miscall delightCan touch him not and torture not again;From the contagion of the world's slow stainHe is secure, and now can never mournA heart grown cold, a head grown gray in vain.

The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose...

I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good. Song

And beautiful, and there the sea I found Calm as a cradled child in dreamless slumber bound.

Calm as a slumbering babe, Tremendous Ocean lay. The mirror of its stillness showed The pale and waning stars

Seek far from noise and day some western cave, Where woods and streams with soft and pausing winds A lulling murmur weave?— [_30 Ianthe] doth not sleep The dreamless sleep of death:- Shelley, Percy Bysshe (2011-03-24). The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete (Kindle Locations 317-319). . Kindle Edition.

Stay up and listen to lightening. If there is no lightening around, stay up and listen to nothing. Just listen to the sheer joy of your thoughts trans-versing from one corner of your brain to the next.

Spiritual rest can occur, even when a storm is raging.

The stream of the mountains pleases me more than the sea.