Quotes About Tranquility

When you are alone, you should call this tranquility and freedom and when you are with many you shouldn't call this a crowd, or trouble or uneasiness but festival and company and contentedly accept it.

Show me someone untroubled with disturbing thoughts about illness, danger, death, exile or loss of reputation. By all the gods, I want to see a Stoic!

When you're alone you should call this condition tranquility and freedom, and think of yourself like the gods; and when you are with many, you shouldn't call it a crowd, or trouble, or uneasiness, but festival and company, and contentedly accept it.

Begin therefore with little things. A little oil is spilled, a little wine is stolen: say, "This is the price of tranquility; this is the price of not being upset.

True peace is characterized by nothing so much as steadiness and imperturbability.

La lenteur, c'est ça le secret du bonheur.

Czy w twoim kraju jest pustynia? - Nie. (...) - Wi?c jak sobie radzisz? Zrozumia?em jego pytanie. Znaczy?o: jak sobie radzisz, gdy chcesz porozmy?la?? (...) W odpowiedzi pokaza?em mu niebo... Zrozumia? i u?miechn?? si?, uspokojony: mia?em swoj? cz??? pustyni!

Greed and peace preclude each other.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.

Only a man at peace with his Creator could find sleep in a place of worship.

Au bout de tant d'années passées parmi les vêtements-Blancs, il avait réussi à se bâtir une solitude, cette chère et irremplaçable solitude dont il s'enveloppait comme d'une cotte de mailles. La partager, c'était la perdre. Chaque fois qu'il en avait le loisir, il aimait à retrouver son discret repaire, seul, sans un autre compagnon que lui même. Pourquoi encombrer ses oreilles d'un bourdonnement humain?

Meditation is listening the inner song. The song of Love, Peace and Light

Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.

This place spoke to something deep inside her. She was drawn to the water as if she'd lived her whole life here, as if it were a part of her she'd been missing. She filled her lungs with the salty air, and a calm settled over her.

then let him go, losing himself in the Zen of pain control once more.

Moonlight in a quiet garden that is her beauty.

De tan levísimo el oleaje, el mar parecía una laguna. Me quité los zapatos para probar la temperatura del agua, que refulgía blanca bajo el fogaje del sol.

Y así, ninguna de ellas, como dije, se casó. Lo que no impedía que vivieran muy tranquilas y felices, en la gran casa, con su prado, su chopera, su huerta, sus viñas y todas sus grandes y hermosas tierras. Un bello río circundaba la finca, profundo y verde, bordeado de chopos ancianos, álamos y robles. Y más allá, en la ladera de las montañas, se alzaba el misterioso bosque.

Weather out the storm in the island of tranquility to find inner peace.

All are stoics in the grave.

And, on the ocean's crystal mirror,