Abraham Cowley Quotes

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.

When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

I want to live quietly.

There are times when life's just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, "Well, what are you really like?"

Nothing makes me feel better - calmer, clearer and happier - than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It's actually something deeper than mere happiness: it's joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as 'that kind of happiness that doesn't depend on what happens.

HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.

To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!

We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.

Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.

Other people are joyous, like on the feast of the ox, like on the way up to the terrace in the spring. I alone am inert, giving no sign, like a newborn baby who has not learned to smile.

Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.

My uncertain temper is cooling, as is my sense of racing against time to accomplish the things I want to. I don't have to go anywhere or see anyone I don't want to now, and it is a glorious feeling!

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I can relax.

I have a pretty easy life.

I don't ever feel the need to escape.