Quotes about Tranquility
I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
— Anonymous
May thy ball lie in green pastures... and not in still waters.
— Anonymous
He needed to get away from the rush of the city, from the unceasing noise and annoying obligations.
— Francine Rivers
So many times you've given me comfort and forgetfulness.
— Frank Herbert
Better a dry morsel and quietness than a house full of sacrifice and strife.
— Frank Herbert
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
— Oscar Wilde
The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That's why I have to have apartments with gardens.
— Paulo Coelho
She gazed right through it to the future, another time and place without this jangling cascade of arbitrary noise.
— Lydia Millet
If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.
— Madeleine L'Engle
If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Genuine tranquility of the heart and perfect peace of mind, the highest blessings on earth after health, are to be found only in solitude and, as a permanent disposition, only in the deepest seclusion.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
St. Augustine once defined peace as "tranquility in order "The plan of life is what finally imposed a spiritual order on my ordinary days. And that order was the necessary precondition of peace.
— Scott Hahn