Tranquil Quotes

137 quotes by 115 authors

The studious silence of the library ... Tranquil brightness. — James Joyce
This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate. — Marcus Aurelius
The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled… — Joseph Conrad
When we are children, we have a tranquil acceptance of mystery which is driven out of us later on, by curiosity and education and experience.… — Susan Cooper
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever… — Henry Ward Beecher
When you are feeling very passionate, lust, sex takes over. Just try to be tranquil in the breathing, and you feel sex has disappeared. — Rajneesh
I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is… — Gautama Buddha
How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other! — Jules Verne
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, Iâ€™d be standing on the breadline… — Lenny Bruce
Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you… — Epictetus
Sometimes at night I think that my husband is with me again, coming gently through the mists, and we are tranquil together. Then the morning… — Kamala Markandaya
I think that sometimes the great changes in our lives, the ones that divide time, happen so deep down and silently that we don't even… — Anne Rivers Siddons
Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like… — Honore de Balzac
One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour. A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease — Dalai Lama
To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing… — Harry Vardon
We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to be a particular… — Moses Mendelssohn
Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come into being. It… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity.… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Dhyana is retaining one's tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

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