Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes

Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

Heaven is to be at peace with things.

Holding still for a moment, what a moment this is, Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss

Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.

There is no higher happiness than peace.

My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest.

Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.

Switzerland is my favorite place now, because it's so - nothing. There is absolutely nothing to do.

If your heart has peace, nothing can disturb you.

Peace. That's what salaam means. Peace unto you." The words brought forth an echo from Ender's memory. His mother's voice reading to him softly, when he was very young. ... The kiss, the word, the peace were with him still. I am only what I remember, and Alai is my friend in a memory so intense that they can't tear him out. Like Valentine, the strongest memory of all.

Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your troubles lay

World peace must develop from inner peace.

No benefit is more constant than simplicity; no happiness more constant than peace.

Peace is our natural state of being.

When I'm doing well, it's like I'm in a nice little ballet. Everything is going slow all around me. It's very peaceful.

By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away.

God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.

There is peace even in the storm

They make solitude, which they call peace.

Prayer and contemplation are both exercises in concentration. The normal deluge of conscious thought is restricted and the mind is brought to one conscious area of operation. The results are those you find in any concentrative practice: deep calm, a physiological slowing of the metabolism and a sense of peace and wellbeing

And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.

Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.

If you want peace, look for it where it is, not in conflict.

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.