Quotes About Tranquility

The arousing from sleep, after a recent misfortune, is a bitter moment; the mind at first habitually recurs to its previous tranquility, but is soon depressed by the thought of the contrast that awaits it.

The only place where you can regain lost paradises

The supreme quality of great men is the power of resting. Anxiety, restlessness, fretting are marks of weakness. —J. R. SEELEY

Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind

God the Eternal Object. To find Him in everything, and everything in Him, is to be at rest.

Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade,Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade:Where'er you tread, the blushing flow'rs shall rise,And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.

How happy he, who free from care The rage of courts, and noise of towns; Contented breathes his native air, In his own grounds

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

But now secure the painted vessel glides,   The sun-beams trembling on the floating tides:   While melting music steals upon the sky,   And soften'd sounds along the waters die; 50   Smooth flow the waves, the Zephyrs gently play,   Belinda smil'd, and all the world was gay.

There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul.

The 'art of tea' is a spiritual force for us to share.

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

That is all that we want, what people want, what people want in New York, in Washington, in Pittsburgh, in any other place in the United States or in Europe. People want to live peacefully. That's what we want.

I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

Being in water makes me relax instantly.

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

Cross the meadow and the stream and listen as the peaceful water brings peace upon your soul.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

Paddle boarding: it's the closest you get to walking on water.

Something about being surrounded by water has a really calming effect on me.

In the hierarchy of public lands, national parks by law have been above the rest: America's most special places, where natural beauty and all its attendant pleasures - quiet waters, the scents of fir and balsam, the hoot of an owl, and the dark of a night sky unsullied by city lights - are sacrosanct.