I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest…

I don't rest in my business interests, I don't rest being a husband, I don't rest being a father, and I don't rest doing…

— Bernard Hopkins

She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give…

— Henry James

we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.

— Brenda Ueland

She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give…

— Henry James

“The sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our…

— Samuel Adams

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and…

— John Evelyn

“To pass from the extremes of danger to safety-from the tumult of war to the tranquility of peace, though sweet in contemplation, requires a…

— Thomas Paine

The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or…

— Sam Harris

“It was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.”

— Charlotte Brontë

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Establish a "zone of tranquility" where your drunken wife can't find you.”

— Viktor Kalvachev

“A conscience free from guilt leads to tranquility of the mind, and only a tranquil mind can see things as they truly are.”

— Bohdi Sanders

He who believes in God is not careful for the morrow, but labors joyfully and with a great heart. "For He giveth His beloved,…

— Martin Luther

Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich