Tranquility Quotes

You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.

Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping.

The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

It is tranquil people who accomplish much.

Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility... Without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed or unhappy because of circumstances.

Always be aware that you have the power to create the naturally stress-free and tranquil life you desire.

It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.

If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.

Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?

This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.

Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.

A mind that is characterized by unrest will not be tranquil even in the presence of great calm.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.

If your heart has peace, nothing can disturb you.

People find pressure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the things that happen to them. In accepting and welcoming everything I see. In treating each thing as it deserves.

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.

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

Peace is freedom in tranquility.

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.

Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.

If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.

Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.

Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul.

Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'

I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.

Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.

Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.

It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it.

The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by.

Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.

Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized mymind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.

How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.

I sail with you on the ocean of my dreamsto a far away distant Place of great beauty and tranquility.where suffering and pain do not exist,where we give praises for our joy and happiness,where our Love interwines with Love for all things.

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!

Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off.

There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.