Quotes about Tranquility

Therefore let not thy heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall have abundance of peace.

Remain tranquil and prepare to bear still greater trials. All is not lost even though you be troubled oftener or tempted more grievously. You are a man, not God. You are flesh, not an angel. How can you possibly expect to remain always in the same state of virtue when the angels in heaven and the first man in paradise failed to do so? I am He Who rescues the afflicted and brings to My divinity those who know their own weakness.

First, I say that he draws near to those who make peace with him. For God is the One who brings about peace; and where else should peace dwell than in peace?

to make peace either in oneself or among others, shows a man to be a follower of God,

Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.

To walk alone in London is the greatest rest.

I can't imagine anything nicer than to sit out in the moonlight and listen to music—

The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably yet quietly, she seemed like the champion of the rights of sleepers, like one of those spectral presences which rise in twilight in woods made of sky and branches.

The calmest part of the storm is not in its eye, but in your own soul.

Contentment doth not appear only now and then, as some stars which are seen but seldom; it is a settled temper of heart.