Placid Quotes

“you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...marking the landscape within me ...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“The very same person can, at the very same time, seem at peace to some people, and depressed or even suicidal to some.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those around you seems to be unremarkable, the appearance of ordinariness is an illusion, and just below the placid surface, the world is seething.”
― Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd

“Even if all around is akin to madness it is ideal to remain placid, there is no need to join in the insanity.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is a Dance

“The definition of the “ideal” philosopher, the sage? The seeker who knows a hundred reasons to be unhappy, but finds a thousand ways to be placid and content. She has the clarity of the scientist, the erudition of the teacher, the goodness of the saint.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“There are quiet people, and there are people who are quiet for a reason.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“The definition of the “real philosopher”? The seeker who knows a hundred reasons to be unhappy, but finds a thousand ways to be placid and content.”
― Giannis Delimitsos