Quotes about Tranquility

The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.

The army leaves me time to think, and saves me from the battle of life.

Lilac and star and bird twined with the chant of my soul, There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim.

I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

This, too, is a way of reaching out for the divine peace in the universe, a peace that so preserves each thing that it never deviates from being itself... and continues to perform its own operation.

Peace starts within.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

The wind shook some blossoms from the trees, and the heavy lilac blooms, with their clustering stars, moved to and fro in the languid air. A grasshopper began to chirp by the wall, and like a blue thread a long, thin dragonfly floated past on its brown gauze wings. Lord Henry felt as if he could hear Basil Hallward's heart beating, and wondered what was coming.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

But I would have a darkness in my mind like the dark the dead calf makes for a time on the grass where he lies, and will make in the earth as he is carried down. May all dead things lie down in me and be at peace, as in the ground.