James Russell Lowell Quotes

Happiness is the quiet lull between problems.

The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!

Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.

The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.

If you like music you like silence actually.

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established. If people are around me and whatever I'm doing is efficient, then I'm extremely peaceful.

Summer makes a silence after spring.

Peace and love, peace and love!

There is nothing more powerful than peace.

Where there is peace, God is.

You get a sense of reference there. You feel part of something that's got order and balance and harmony to it. All the distraction and noise, all the confusion of misplaced, misdirected energy just don't happen there.

What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

A smile is the beginning of peace.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

Speak, move, act in peace.

Today, together, let us repeat as our slogan that all trace of violence must disappear from this earth, then the sun will be honey-colored and music good to hear.

She told them simply and directly that the meadow was a place of peace and beauty, where indeed if one came to it in a quiet manner, the animals would not be disturbed; for there are lovely birds, and squirrels and field mice, and sometimes deer.

it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

It is a pink and blue feeling, as sharp as clear sky; a slight breeze, and the edges of Lake Nakuru would rise like the ruffle at the edge of a skirt; and I am pockmarked with whole-body pinpricks of potentiality. A stretch of my body would surely stretch as far as the sky. The whole universe poised, and I am the agent of any movement.