Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
When your life is working there will be an absence of drama
... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the phone, I'm usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.
A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.
One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?
A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
A still tongue makes a happy life.
The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.
