- “The river is such a tranquil place, a place to sit and think of romance and the beauty of nature, to enjoy the elegance of swans and the chance of a glimpse of a kingfisher.” ― Jane Wilson-Howarth, Snowfed Waters
- “Fall in lovewith the energyof the morningstrace your fingers along the lullof the afternoonstake the spirit of the eveningsin your armskiss it deeply and thenmake loveto the tranquilityof the nights.” ― Sanober Khan
- “When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. (151)” ― Sri S. Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras
- “What does this think about that?Nothing thinks about anything.Does the earth have consciousness of its stones and plants?If it did, it would be people. . .Why am I worrying about this?If I think about these things,I’ll stop seeing trees and plantsAnd stop seeing the EarthFor only seeing my thoughts…I’ll get unhappy and stay in the dark.And so, without thinking, I have the Earth and the Sky.” ― Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
- “It’s stranger than every strangenessAnd the dreams of all the poetsAnd the thoughts of all the philosophers,That things are really what they seem to beAnd there’s nothing to understand.” ― Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
- “But if God is the trees and the flowersAnd the hills and the moonlight and the sun,Why should I call him God?I call him flowers and trees and hills and sun and moonlight;Because if he made himself for me to seeAs the sun and moonlight and flowers and trees and hills,If he appears to me as trees and hillsAnd moonlight and sun and flowers,It’s because he wants me to know himAs trees and hills and flowers and moonlight and sun.And that’s why I obey him,(What more do I know about God than God knows about himself?),I obey him by living, spontaneously,Like someone opening his eyes and seeing,And I call him moonlight and sun and flowers and trees and hills,And I love him without thinking about him,And I think him by seeing and hearing,And I walk with him all the time.” ― Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
- “It was wonderful to be living in a house in a reign of peace, order, tranquility, duty and good conscience, forgiveness and love—but it was no less wonderful to know there was the other, the loud and shrill, sullen and violent world from which you could dart back to your mother in one leap.” ― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
- “What does this think about that?Nothing thinks about anything.Does the earth have consciousness of its stones and plants?If it did, it would be people. . .Why am I worrying about this?If I think about these things,I’ll stop seeing trees and plantsAnd stop seeing the EarthFor only seeing my thoughts…I’ll get unhappy and stay in the dark.And so, without thinking, I have the Earth and the Sky.” ― Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
- “Tranquility is a state of the mind, desired by the soul, to calm the spirit, and make the body free from stress.” ― Steven Redhead, Life’s Impressions
- “In the past he had never been able to find that great inscrutable infinite something. He had only felt that it must exist somewhere and had looked for it. In everything near and comprehensible he had only what was limited, petty, commonplace, and senseless. He had equipped himself with a mental telescope and looked into remote space, where petty worldliness hiding itself in misty distance had seemed to him great and infinite merely because it was not clearly seen. And such had European life, politics, Freemasonry, philosophy, and philanthropy seemed to him. But even then, at moments of weakness as he had accounted them, his mind had penetrated to those distances and he had there seen the same pettiness, worldliness, and senselessness. Now, however, he had learned to see the great, eternal, and infinite in everything, and therefore — to see it and enjoy its contemplation — he naturally threw away the telescope through which he had till now gazed over men’s heads, and gladly regarded the ever-changing, eternally great, unfathomable, and infinite life around him. And the closer he looked the more tranquil and happy he became.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
- “APPLY WITHINYou once told meYou wanted to findYourself in the world -And I told you toFirst apply within,To discover the worldwithin you.You once told meYou wanted to saveThe world from all its wars -And I told you toFirst save yourselfFrom the world,And all the warsYou put yourselfThrough.APPLY WITHIN by Suzy Kassem” ― Suzy Kassem
- “An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one’s heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.” ― Alberto Moravia, Contempt
- “Lightly, lightly, very lightly,A wind passes very lightlyAnd goes away, always very lightly.And I don’t know what I thinkAnd I don’t want to know.” ― Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
- “but I am not someone who likes to woundrather I have a quiet mind” ― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
- “I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.(6/20/1919)” ― Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
- “If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,And Spring came the day after tomorrow,I would die peacefully, because it came the day after tomorrow.If that’s its time, when else should it come?I like it that everything is real and everything is right;And I like that it would be like this even if I didn’t like it.And so, if I die now, I die peacefullyBecause everything is real and everything is right.” ― Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
- “If I die very young, hear this:I was never anything but a kid playing.I was a heathen like the sun and the water,I had the universal religion only people don’t have.I was happy because I didn’t ask for anything at all,Or tried to find anything,And I didn’t find any more explanationThan the word explanation having no meaning at all.” ― Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
- “Always ask yourself: “What will happen if I say nothing?” ― Kamand Kojouri
- “That lady has a piano.It’s nice, but it’s not the running of riversOr the murmuring trees make ..Who needs a piano?It’s better to have earsAnd love Nature.” ― Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
- “Believe what you believe and it will be, believe what others believe and they will consume you!” ― Stanley Victor Paskavich
- “Serenity of mind produces an expanding awareness that fosters creative selflessness, which in turn enables us to experience unabashed harmony communing in rhythmical bliss with nature.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
- “Nobody can steal my inner beauty, tranquility, and peace without my consent.” ― Debasish Mridha
- “The sprouting of the seeds of creativity, intuition and wisdom takes place in a relaxed mind. Only anger, greed and ego require a disturbed mind.” ― Shivanshu K. Srivastava
- “I skipped a stone on the glass-like surface of a sleepy lake this morning. And I watched the ripples roll out from the stone’s impact until their energy abated and they fell smooth as was the rest of the lake. And as it become smooth again, I thought that one of the greatest things I could ask of God would be to grant me the gift of a soul with such inner calm that it would smooth out every ripple from every stone that Satan could ever throw into it.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Tranquility of the mind is unworthy untill it is the last thing that we seek.” ― Mecha Constantine
- “Silent is an anagram of listen.” ― Johnny Rich, The Human Script
- “Close your eyes to feel deeply the tranquility and serenity of the mind.” ― Debasish Mridha
- “Because we want to be inwardly secure, we are constantly seeking methods and means for this security, and thereby we create authority, the worship of another, which destroys comprehension, that spontaneous tranquility of mind in which alone there can be a state of creativeness.” ― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom
- “It’s not the quiet ‘in’ the woods. Rather, it’s the quiet ‘of’ the woods. For I don’t want quiet to be ‘in’ me. Like the woods, I want it to be ‘of’ me. And I have found that few things can instill that in me like the woods can.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Setbacks happen in life. Though we may not be able to stop them, we may choose whether to get affected by them! We must move on from a state of over thinking about our setbacks to a state of achieving calm when happiness, peace, and tranquility can be achieved!” ― Avijeet Das