Quotes About Tranquility

Oblivion cures the old wounds.

Her pearled voice quiets a fountain. Even the silence, quiets.

Every way I turned the lush green peaks towered over me. Had it been winter or spring, they would have been iron gray or dappled with pink and white dogwood, sarvis, and redbud, but always they would be there, the mountains, their heights rounded by the elements like relics worn smooth by the hands of reverent pilgrims.

It was beautiful up here. Full of pine and mountain views, and the kind of quiet that made your thoughts loud.

Insistent birds were chorusing and the sky was smeared pink and blue like Cinderella´s dress as they nodded off.

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There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.

Cats know everything there is to know about meditation.

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we are secure in our own soul.

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

Attain deliverance in disturbances.

There are essentially three stages in learning how to meditate. In the beginning you are simply trying to ignore thought.

I was doing a lot of yoga and learning to meditate, and I found that extremely helpful, and still do and hopefully always will.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

You have nothing to gain by freaking out.

are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

One of the best ways to blast past the noise in our brains and discover what's going on underneath is through meditation. Sitting in purposeful silence.

A safe harbor. In the turmoil of her life, she'd known so few of them.