The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to the shop.… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It is therefore essential to let the 'heart spirit' settle like calm water. Then it becomes a tranquil lake in which the… — Olivier Clement Copy Share Image
The breeze and the dew make tranquil the clear dawn; Behind the curtain there is one who alone is up betimes. The… — Li Shangyin Copy Share Image
There is something obscure which is complete before heaven and earth arose; tranquil, quiet, standing alone without change, moving without peril. It… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Dhyana is retaining one's tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We should tell ourselves, once and for all, that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete,… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Usually when I draw, I try to be in a contemplative mood. I try to keep my mind as empty, vacant and… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
People talk about apathy, especially in developed countries. We're kind of lulled into these tranquil lives, and we are pursuing our own… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Our state of mind plays a major role in our day-to-day experiences as well as our physical and mental well-being. If a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
In our minds lives the madonna image--the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
I want people to look at themselves. I want people to go into a space for meditation. It's funny to use a… — David W. Marsden Copy Share Image
It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Ah, drink again This river that is the taker-away of pain, And the giver-back of beauty! In these cool waves What can… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart. — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
When you are feeling very passionate, lust, sex takes over. Just try to be tranquil in the breathing, and you feel sex… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If an individual has a calm state of mind, that person's attitudes and views will be calm and tranquil even in the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Inside each one of us is a beautiful flower garden. This is the garden of the soul. With each lesson we learn,… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like taking all you do at a moderate estimate: it keeps mind and body tranquil; whereas grandiloquent notions are… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mild is the slow necessity of death; The tranquil spirit fails beneath its grasp, Without a groan, almost without a fear, Resigned… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
Meekness is calm confidence, settled assurance, and rest of the soul. It is the tranquil stillness of a soul that is at… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A tranquil summer sunset shone upon him as he approached the end of his walk, and passed through the meadows by the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I suppose also that watching marketing and publicity stuff play out from behind the scenes, making those plans and seeing each piece… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
Being able to recognize which of your desires are vital to pursue and which ones are not is often less than easy.… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes, and the… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I think that in fact by taking on the persona of a human being, you begin to realise that it is all… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May,… — Euripides Copy Share Image