Aeschylus Quotes

Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.

Movement is tranquility.

Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.

Be calm. Be Zen. You are Buddha.

Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.

The bottom of the soul may be in repose, even while we are in many outward troubles; just as the bottom of the sea is calm, while the surface is strongly agitated.

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence — it is unshakeable

Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.

Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.

The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.

Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.

Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.

pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.

Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.

While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.

The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.

Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar! The will to neither strive nor cry, The power to feel what others give! Calm, calm me more! nor let me die Before I have begun to live.

I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest to God... and as far as my intelligence would permit, I find that high virtue to be pure disinterest, that is, detachment from creatures. Our Lord said to Martha 'Unum est necessarium', which is to say; to be untroubled and pure, one thing is necessary and that is disinterest.

The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.