Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite--variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite--energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not.

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

To me I've just really, really found a relaxed, peaceful side of my life and I'm enjoying it.

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.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

All I want is to live a peaceful life, to regain my life and be happy.

Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

I like having peace and quiet in my life, and I am perfectly happy in my relationships.

Take it easy, and remember "Easy is Right."

The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

Sleep, nurse of our life, care's best reposer.

Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility... Without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed or unhappy because of circumstances.

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

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.

In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound; of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to earth.

Meditation is the key to open the door, the door of absolute contentment. Mind is always discontented., hence meditation means creating a state of no-mind. That space is always contented.

When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.