Kenneth Grahame Quotes

Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.

When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.

I feel like I live a pretty quiet life. I like to focus on work and friends, and I love being in nature.

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

And the lesson was this; sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light, and the world will come to you. The sky will come in its time, bringing rain, and the earth will rise through you, from beneath, and make you rich and make you full.

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.

When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom.

To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.

But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.

Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good.

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.

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.

Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.

Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.

To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it.

Aloneness is the presence of oneself. Aloneness is very positive... You are so full of presence that you can fill the whole universe with your presence and there is no need for anybody.