Quotes about Tranquility
Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.
- Billie Jean King
Don't sit on your patio in the high noon of your tranquility and make light of the huts that people build in the midnight of their desperation.
- Fred Craddock
Silence is not simply the absence of noise or the shutdown of communication with the outside world, but rather a process of coming to stillness.
- Brennan Manning
Peace is first of all the art of being.
- Henri Nouwen
Silence is the discipline that helps us to go beyond the entertainment quality of our lives.
- Henri Nouwen
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.
- Henri Nouwen
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.
- Henri Nouwen
Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
- Henry David Thoreau
Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.
- Henry David Thoreau
My life is like a stroll upon the beach, as near to the ocean's edge as I can go.
- Henry David Thoreau
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.
- Henry David Thoreau