#tranquility

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) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

#mindfulness #tranquility #virtue #nature

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility. ↗

— Kwame Nkrumah

#prefer #self-government #servitude #tranquility

Life can be frustrating sometimes. Take a nap, exercise, meditate or do whatever it takes to 'reboot' your thinking. Happiness is just a thought away! ↗

— Tom Giaquinto

#choice #exercise #frustation #happiness #happy

Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace ↗

— Dean Koontz

#loneliness #peace #reflection #solitude #tranquility

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#happiness #tranquility #understanding #development

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#beings #cannot #find #human #human beings

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#give #neither #nor #occupation #splendor

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#heart #i #i am #loyal #sustained

…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak—and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#carolina #tranquility #freedom

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#quiet #silence #tranquility #life