Edmund Waller Quotes

An everlasting tranquility is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because I know of no felicity on earth higher than that which a peaceful mind and contented heart afford.

Simplicity makes me happy.

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

All happiness is a form of innocence.

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

Happiness is the art of relaxation.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

Do you want to be happy? Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing.

Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.

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

If your mind is still, you're the happiest.

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Peace, truthfully, is how you feel inside.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.

So when you get a chance to look at things and chill and relax, it makes you want it more, and that's why I'm so happy to be back!

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.

Happiness is very simple and minimal.

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

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

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.