Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 11

Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.

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“Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.”

“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”

“Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.”

“Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it—only then—for the first time.”

— Cesare Pavese

“O let not Time deceive you, you cannot conquer Time.”

— W. H. Auden

“When you have all the time in the world, you can spend it, not on going somewhere, but on being where you are.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

“The Bird of Time has but a little way to fly—and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.”

— Omar Khayyam

“Time, in its stealthy gliding, cheats us all without our notice; nothing goes more swiftly than do the years.”

— Ovid

“Years following years steal something ev'ry day. At last they steal us from ourselves away.”

— Alexander Pope

“Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.”

— Cesare Pavese

“Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.”

— Khalil Gibran

“What, then, is time? If no one ask of me, I know; if I wish to explain to him who asks, I know not.”

— Augustine of Hippo

“Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.”

— Aeschylus

“No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.”

— Romain Rolland

“There is no book so bad but something good may be found in it.”

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“I am grateful for what I am & have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“No possession is gratifying without a companion.”

— Seneca

“The first bond of society is marriage; the next, our children; then the whole family and all things in common.”

— Cicero

“Domestic happiness, thou only bliss of Paradise that has surviv'd the fall!”

— William Cowper

“A good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.”

— George Santayana

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