Long days and pleasant nights
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
Compassion, forgiveness, these are the real, ultimate sources of power for peace and success in life
I always tell people I romanticize about doing something simple, like doing radio in northern California.
Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
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.
This is my life: it's an easy life. It's not complicated.
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
Peace is not a luxury. It's not an option. It is fundamental to the existence and well-being of a human being to have peace in their life.
It is so calming, marriage.
I have my life on the field, but when I finish that, I want a quiet life with my family.
Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.
We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
Everyone has the right to a peaceful life.
I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.
Life is wonderful beautiful journey. Every episode of my life is like a dream, and I am at peace and happy with what life has given me.
Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends
Peace beings with me. The more peaceful I am inside, the more peace I have to share with others.
Anger can be a good thing. It's a mechanism that your brain uses to get you out of situations that are bad for you. But in terms of leading a peaceful life, it is not very productive.
Become an ambassador of peace in your own life.
Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.
True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures—unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.
The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
