Izaak Walton Quotes

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.

I am a glutton for tranquility.

With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.

Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

Only silence perfects silence.

I really love peace and quiet.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

I'm pretty peaceful and calm and sweet.

I want to be able to live in a way that isn't too hectic. Calm. And I want those around me to be sublimely happy as well.

I love to fish. I love the peacefulness of being around the water.

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.

Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart unconscious of sorrow and happiness - that is perfect virtue. One, without change - that is perfect repose. Without any obstruction - that is the perfection of the unconditioned. Holding no relations with the external world, - that is perfection of the negative state. Without blemish of any kind, - that is the perfection of purity.

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

All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know: Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm: Endless extinction of unhappy hates.

Love is serene and calm

Green calm below, blue quietness above.

Know the Power that is Peace.