Tennessee Williams Quotes

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

A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

I'm more relaxed and just feel like there's kind of a peace with myself.

For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind.

Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it after the hour, you have had the most beautiful rest you ever had in your life. That is the only way you ever give rest to your system. Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as that.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

When I go home and get off tour, I'd like to have a peace of mind. I like to chill. I don't like everything to be all chaotic like how it is when I step outside, you know?

I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

The resolved mind hath no cares.

Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.

A quiet mind cureth all.

My heart is so peaceful.

I want peace in my life.

I don't know if I'm relentlessly cheerful... more consistently relaxed.

If you can't find peace inside, you'll never be at peace.

Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.

Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

I've always been fortunate in that I've been able to put myself in my own zone and relax. It comes naturally. I'm lucky to be that way

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.

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.