Alan Paton Quotes

I'm at peace.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.

How great is it to just rest and be happy and not move when you don't have to.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

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

be it peace or happiness let it enfold you

Rest and be thankful.

I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.

I finally found me a cloud to float on.

When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such a blessed sense of rest!

Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.

Nothing's wrong. Everything's right. Things couldn't be righter. Things could be less tired. They could be less busy. They could be less caffeinated. But they couldn't be righter.

Rest, rest at the heart's core . . . till joy shall overtake.

I take a baths all the time. I'll put on some music and burn some incense and just sit in the tub and think, Wow, life is great right now.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

Peace is its own reward.

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

The best way to explain it is that I'm not yearning anymore, on or off the course. I appreciate what I have. I feel like I'm blessed.

Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.