Quotes About Tranquility

Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal.

You cannot pay attention to silence without simultaneously becoming still within. Silence without, stillness within.

There is one certain criterion by which you can measure your success in this practice: the degree of peace that you feel within.

NO OFRECER RESISTENCIA A LA VIDA es estar en un estado de gracia, tranquilidad y ligereza, un estado que no depende de que las cosas sean de cierta manera, buenas o malas.

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

She sat silent, and the world lay like a sunlit valley at their feet.

They had never been at peace together, they two; and now he felt himself drawn downward into the strange mysterious depths of her tranquillity.

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

It's a mild hell so comfortable that it resembles heaven.

moonlight in Mayo" time.

They delight in sloth, they detest tranquility.

The clam of peace and prosperity was once more experienced in the provinces;

I tell myself not to remember the past, not to hope or fear for the future, and not to think in the present, a comprehensive program that will undoubtedly have very little success.

Nothing can have so prevalent a power to still the agitation of passion in the breast, nothing is so fit to induce a smooth and easy flow, and a constant evenness of temper, as a frequent application to the throne of grace.

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

I would like to stay like this, lazy, warm, in the silence where only our regular breathing can be heard, without ever having to make gestures, speak words which sell us out and betray us; this moment is real and alive, I stretch it into eternity...

No es mejor apagar en un amor fácil la sed del alma, que devora la tranquilidad del espíritu?

If I knew I was going to die tomorrow, And Spring came the day after tomorrow, I would die peacefully, because it came the day after tomorrow. If that's its time, when else should it come? I like it that everything is real and everything is right; And I like that it would be like this even if I didn't like it. And so, if I die now, I die peacefully Because everything is real and everything is right.

Se sentía completamente tranquilo, frío; si acaso, un poco triste; era una tristeza misteriosa que consideraba ya inseparable de su carácter.

An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.

Sacred space allows us to enter our quiet inner world where healing takes place.

Manuel Mandeb entró en la niebla y se sintió más tranquilo. Prefería caminar en la cerrazón porque el rumbo era incierto, las ubicaciones discutibles y las apariencias confusas. Mandeb sentía terror ante lo irrefutable, ante las decisiones del amor tomadas, ante lo que ya nunca podría ser de otro modo.

The thunder traveled over the ship, from west to east, with prolonged reverberations, before it moved away with its clouds, leaving the sea, by mid-afternoon, bathed in a strange auroral light, which turned its as smooth and iridescent as a mountain lake. The bow of the Arrow became a plough, breaking up the tranquility of the surface with the frothy arabesques of its wake.

Addio, casa ancora straniera, nella quale la mente si figurava un soggiorno tranquillo e perpetuo di sposa.