Anglers Quote by Washington Irving Download Open image “There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.” — Washington Irving ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anglers Angling Fisherman Fishes Fishing Fly fishing Great fishing Inspirational Mind Peace Produce Psychology Serenity Trout Trout fishing
You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
“Serenity of mind produces an expanding awareness that fosters creative selflessness, which in turn enables us to experience unabashed harmony communing in rhythmical bliss… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
It may sound lovey-dovey, but there's research showing the positive effect of meditation on parts of the brain that control emotion. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Meditation really helps create not only a sense of balance... but serenity and kind of a calm state of mind. — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Serenity comes from the heart. Although the heart is often tormented by thoughts of insecurity, it knows that - through correct posture - it… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands.… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Lust is as it were desire and desire, will which extends beyond the natural will, passionate, not governed by the law and moderation. There… — Patriarch Philaret of Moscow Copy Share Image
What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed nerve endings… — Jessica Maxwell Copy Share Image
And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte. — Juliana Berners Copy Share Image
We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the stream, nor… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached this stage… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook, all day… — William Cowper Prime Copy Share Image
Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this. — Harold Russell Copy Share Image
The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image