During such calm sunshine of the mind, these spectres of false divinity never make their appearance.

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.
Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.

No state is so bitter than a calm mind cannot find in it some consolation.

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

Un désespoir paisible, sans convulsions de colère et sans reproches au ciel est la sagesse même.

when you’re grateful, there is no anger.

You may be sure that you are at peace with yourself when no noise reaches you, when no word shakes you out of yourself, whether it be flattery or a threat, or merely an empty sound buzzing about you with unmeaning sin.

The amazing peacefulness, the astonishing lack of anger, the sweetness and balm of being at last on the right side of power. (p100)

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

There is nothing, at any time, in any circumstance, to worry over why this to me ?

When there is no desire,
all things are at peace.

Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.