Quotes About Tranquility

There is nothing - nothing - that beats being in the jungles. It's so easy to just sit and meditate there.

I like to get to bed with a clear head.

Bedtime is truly one of my favorite times.

I love being alone.

In attending to the breath with onepointed concentration, everything else falls away—including thoughts, feelings, the outside world. Samadhi is characterized by absorption in stillness and undisturbed peacefulness.

Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself? LAO-TZU, Tao-te-Ching

Inner peace exists outside of time.

Chris McCandless was at peace, serene as a monk gone to God.

But if he pitied himself in those last difficult hours–because he was so young, because he was alone, because his body had betrayed him and his will had let him down– it's not apparent from the photograph. He is smiling in the picture, and there is no mistaking the look in his eyes. Chris McCandless was at peace, serene as a monk gone to God.

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.

It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.

A silence fell. Frogs in the night were calling, calling, calling.

It's so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won't be awake for another five hours, but I can't help feeling that we're sharing this clear and beautiful morning.

They say that people who live next to waterfalls don't hear the water.

Being with him made my brain quiet.

Siguranta si pace la adapost de ce? - Nu stiu. Siguranta si pace la adapost de ne-siguranta si de ne-pace.

La felicidad es, para mí, la satisfacción de saberse en el camino correcto. La felicidad es la tranquilidad interna de quien sabe hacia dónde dirige su vida. La felicidad es la certeza de no estar perdido.

Me negué, con suave energía, a discutir el Aleph; lo abracé, al despedirme, y le repetí que el campo y la serenidad son dos grandes médicos

Así combatieron los héroes, tranquilo el admirable corazón, violenta la espada, resignados a matar y a morir'.

The river was blue then like extension of the sky.

Leisure draws its vitality from affirmation. It is not the same as non-activity, nor is it identical with tranquility; it is not even the same as inward tranquility. Rather, it is like the tranquil silence of lovers, which draws its strength from concord.

Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.

Abbie felt her eyelids drifting shut, and let peace wash over her.

And silence sounds no worse than cheersAfter earth has stopped the ears.