Quotes About Tranquility

And as I lay there listening, with the sun filtering across me, I thought this was how it should always be. To be charmed from sleep by a voice like this, eased softly back into life, rather than by the customary brutalities of shouts, knocking, and alarm-bells like blows on the head. The borders of consciousness are anxious enough, raw and desperate places; we shouldn't be dragged across them like struggling thieves as if sleep was a felony.

The house was still, weighty with the comfort of a thousand books.

He loved the desert because there the wind blew out one's footsteps like candle flames.

Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy.

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.

Smile, breathe and go slowly.

Heaven doesn't laugh. It just smiles and stares.

Your eyes smile peace.

Smile, breathe, go slowly.

Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity's Smile.

Don't think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot.

Other people are joyous, like on the feast of the ox, like on the way up to the terrace in the spring. I alone am inert, giving no sign, like a newborn baby who has not learned to smile.

Happiness is found principally in meditation. Let your mind flow out into eternity. You have to exert some effort. Then you will notice a subtle smile on your face.

Let your Life be a garden of peace and your smile be a bloom of flowers.

Enjoy, smile... wild... peace.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace

He had no need to push the everyday world away from him. He just stepped out of it whenever he wished.

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

there was a certain comfort in surrender.

the typical worker who through the whole of his life...pursues the idea of a certain artificial and elegant repose which he may never arrive at, for which he sacrifices a real tranquility...It is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind.

La sociedad y la conversación, pues, son los remedios más poderosos para restituir la tranquilidad a la mente, si en algún momento, desgraciadamente, la ha perdido;

Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind. There is, in the very feeling of those passions, something harsh, jarring, and convulsive, something that tears and distracts the breast, and is altogether destructive of that composure and tranquillity of mind which is so necessary to happiness, and which is best promoted by the contrary passions of gratitude and love.