Gunter Grass Quotes

I was happiest between the waves.

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?

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

I am calm most of the time.

To go in the water and stare at a shrimp for three minutes and not think about anything else in the world, it's just euphoric.

I'm still trying to figure out being calm.

When I sing, I feel calm.

Take time to be quiet.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen. Then what will be the quality? Watchfully alert, joyously unmotivated, centered, loving, flowing, one walks. And the walking is sauntering. Loving, alert, watchful, one sits, unmotivated - not sitting for anything in particular, just enjoying how beautiful just sitting doing nothing is, how relaxing, how restful.

The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing

You might say that death has relaxed me.

beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed.

At the pit's bottom is no anger.

We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.

I'm on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.

It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life.

Today I will focus on a peaceful pace, rather than a harried one. I will keep moving forward gently, not frantically. I will let go of my need to be anxious and upset and will replace these feelings with calmness and harmony.

Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.

A rested face is a beautiful face. However you can, find your place of rest and peace.

There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.

be it peace or happiness let it enfold you