Coats Quote by Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress…

— Zhuangzi

The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not possess that…

— Hannah More

So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life…

— Erasmus Darwin

“A calm and undisturbed mind and heart are the life and health of the body, but envy, jealousy, and wrath are like rottenness of…

— Joyce Meyer

“The sage is not sorry for those that are living nor for those that die” (note 4). [Krishna says:]”

— Swami Vivekananda

“The acts of daily forbearance, the headache, or toothache, or heavy cold; the tiresome peculiarities of husband or wife, the broken glass...all of these…

— St. Francis de Sales

“Debarred from public worship, David was heartsick. Ease he did not seek, honour he did not covet, but the enjoyment of communion with God…

— Charles Spurgeon

“Virtue becomes unhealthy if it is not softened by some misdemeanours, and faith quickly becomes cruel if it is not subdued by certain doubts.”

— Amin Maalouf

“Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist then Pleasure.”

— George Gordon Byron

The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back…

— Laozi