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Quotes About Tranquility

Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does.
~ Rick Kennedy
It's not bad enough I am exiled? It's not bad enough you take away the few good heroes I'm allowed to meet? You think it's funny to send me this this ? this charbroiled runt of a boy to ruin my tranquility? This is NOT FUNNY! Take him back!
~ Rick Riordan
Calypso: You think it's funny to send me this...this charbroiled runt of a boy to ruin my tranquility? This is NOT FUNNY! take him back! Leo: Hey, sunshine, I'm right here you know... Calypso: Do NOT call me sunshine!
~ Rick Riordan
Peace with God, peace with others, and peace in your own heart.
~ Rick Warren
There was just a beautiful, unearthly silence. He thought of the wood and the bluebells, the owl and the fox, a Hornby train trundling around his bedroom floor, the smell of a cake baking in the oven. The skylark ascending on his thread of song. F-Fox
~ Kate Atkinson
The stillest hour of the night had come, the hour before dawn, when the world seems to hold its breath. The moon hung low, and had turned from silver to copper in the sleeping sky.
~ Kate Chopin
a tangle of sea smell and of weeds and damp, new-plowed earth, mingled with the heavy perfumes of white blossoms somewhere near, but the night sat lightly upon the sea and the land. there was no weight of darkness, there were no shadows. the white light of the moon had fallen upon the world like the mystery and the softness of sleep.
~ Kate Chopin
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
~ Kate Chopin
leave you alone.
~ Kate DiCamillo
seas, lakes, rivers, streams, creeks, and puddles.
~ Kate McMullan
supposed to be OK again to like peace
~ Katherine Paterson
Up there in my snug sweet tower, I felt I'd made landfall in the shoals of shifting clouds. Far enough from the crowds to relish the crowds.
~ Kathleen Rooney
Alone, but not lonely; in the state of being solitary but not the condition of wishing myself otherwise. Solitude enrobed me like a long, warm coat.
~ Kathleen Rooney
There is strength in calm").
~ Kati Marton
In der Ruhe liegt die Kraft"—"There is strength in calm
~ Kati Marton
Be merciful and leave this place. Leave this country to rest in forgetfulness.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Hace ya algún tiempo que me cuesta relajarme en mi propia casa. Si estoy solo, me pongo cada vez más nervioso, fastidiado por la idea de que me estoy perdiendo un encuentro crucial en otra parte. Pero si me quedo solo en casa ajena, a menudo me inunda una agradable sensación de paz.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
the English landscape at its finest - such as I saw it this morning - possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations, however more superficially dramatic, inevitably fail to possess.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
the evening is the best part of the day
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Ask anybody, they'll all tell you. The evening's the best part of the day.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
it is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Peace was all a human being ought to ask for, it seemed to her.
~ Ken Follett
haven, a place to rest and get clean and whole
~ Ken Follett
La tormenta que había estallado en su corazón amainó ligeramente. La penumbra y el frescor del interior, entre los imponentes muros de piedra, le hicieron sentir la trascendencia de la eternidad. Los problemas terrenales eran temporales, incluso los peores: ese era el mensaje que transmitía el templo a sus visitantes. El corazón volvió a latirle con normalidad.
~ Ken Follett