The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise… — Confucius Copy Share Image
This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Nations, as well as individuals, must be virtuous and righteous if they desire to be stable, prosperous, and tranquil. — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I got letters from people that have had peculiar psychic experiences, experiences with the dead - sometimes fairly tranquil experiences and sometimes… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Sometimes at night I think that my husband is with me again, coming gently through the mists, and we are tranquil together.… — Kamala Markandaya Copy Share Image
I hear my heartbeat. I have been looking at him too long, but then, he has been looking back, and I feel… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The gods and their tranquil abodes appear, which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with showers, nor does the white snow, hardened… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Praised be St John, the glorified of God! Lord, grant me the prayers of St John, disciple and friend whom thou lovest,… — Eric Milner-White Copy Share Image
The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“Create a tranquil place where you can isolate yourself from the rest of the world, but keep the roads open to everywhere… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Shake off the cloud of mere routine to find tranquil rustic joys and peace that serve to fuel audacious power and passion.” — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
You need to put easy, nice, tranquil thoughts in your head before you go to bed. You know what I do? I… — Cristina Saralegui Copy Share Image
Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
If there were no cherry blossoms in this world How much more tranquil our hearts would be in spring. — Ariwara no Narihira Copy Share Image
“Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She was tranquil, but it was with the quietness of exhausted grief, not of resignation; and she looked back upon the past,… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that… — George Linley Copy Share Image
Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other! — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
