Quotes about Tranquility

Peace is first of all the art of being.

Silence is the discipline that helps us to go beyond the entertainment quality of our lives.

It had brought me into touch with something within me that lies far beyond the ups and downs of a busy life, something that represents the ongoing yearning of the human spirit, the yearning for a final return, an unambiguous sense of safety, a lasting home.

As long as our loneliness brings us together with the hope that together we no longer will be alone, we castigate each other with our unfulfilled and unrealistic desires for oneness, inner tranquility and the uninterrupted experience of communion.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.

My life is like a stroll upon the beach, as near to the ocean's edge as I can go.

Alone in distant woods or fields, in unpretending sprout lands or pastures tracked by rabbits, even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day like this, when a villager would be thinking of his inn, I come to myself. I once more feel myself grandly related. This cold and solitude are friends of mine.

that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.

We are wont to imagine rare and delectable places in some remote and more celestial corner of the system, behind the constellation of Cassiopeia's Chair, far from noise and disturbance. I discovered that my house actually had its site in such a withdrawn, but forever new and unprofaned, part of the universe.

I have come to this hill to see the sun go down, to recover sanity and put myself again in relation with Nature.

There can be no very black melancholy for him who has his senses still and lives in the midst of nature.