William Butler Yeats Quotes

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

Only silence perfects silence.

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.

I am a glutton for tranquility.

I'm pretty peaceful and calm and sweet.

You have to be calm as a manger.

Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.

Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")

Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.

Nothing increases happiness like quiet time. The truth is, the only moments that make you laugh or happy are seconds of stillness.

Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.

He has the gift of quiet.

I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.

Allow nature to teach you stillness.

He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.

Thy peace shall be in much patience.

The thing that I love, especially after sound check, is when I'm in that stadium alone. It's complete silence. I love that.

Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?