Quotes about Tranquility

Nergens heb ik meer rust gevonden dan in bossen en boeken.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

We may enjoy abundance of peace if we refrain from busying ourselves with the sayings and doings of others, and things which concern not ourselves.

O quam salubre, quam iucundum et suave est sedere in solitudine et tacere et loqui cum Deo!

You will never find peace unless you are united with Christ in the very depths of your heart.

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

Grant to me a humble and quiet spirit, one that is never uncontrolled or garrulous.

But let us lay the axe to the very root of our life, that, being cleansed from affections, we may possess our souls in peace.

Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.

From this sin, that a man loveth himself too inordinately, almost everything hangeth which needeth to be utterly overcome: when that evil is conquered and put under foot, there shall be great peace and tranquillity continually. But because few strive earnestly to die perfectly to themselves, and do not heartily go forth from themselves, therefore do they remain entangled in themselves, and cannot be raised in spirit above themselves.