Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“She felt all right. Her heart was like a drum hanging from piano wire in her chest, slowly, slowly beaten. Her hands… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow. — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
The splitting up of color [as Impressionists did] brought the splitting up of form and contour . . . Everything is reduced… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
You can find tranquility, you can find party, you can find new friends. I'm a cruise convert. — Guy Fieri Copy Share Image
The soul is never perfectly secure from the influence of passion; the occasional tranquility she seems to enjoy, is rather relaxation than… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“He’s taught me everything. He taught me how to look at things. He shows me everything there is in flowers. He shows… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Being Tranquil didn't sound so bad to him. He'd been terrified of being swallowed up by the darkness for so long it… — David Gaider Copy Share Image
A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains, fluttering a few moments of tranquility into the turbulent day. — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Don't use your faith to try to get rid of problems. Use your faith to remain calm in the midst of your… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“All beings exist and nothing else And that’s why they’re called beings” — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Only your surface is disturbed; in your deepness there is stillness and total tranquility.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The Constitution, when it says, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
There are intellectual vagabonds, to whom the hereditary dwelling-place of their fathers seems too cramped and oppressive for them to be willing… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Zen takes the opposite tack; it holds that true reality is the fundamental unity of mind and matter, inner spirit and external… — Tom Hoover Copy Share Image
Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image