Tranquility Quotes

278 quotes by 234 authors

We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is… — Lyall Watson
It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility.… — Anne Rice
Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility...without this inner… — Dalai Lama
The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it… — Robert M. Pirsig
I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement. — William Boyd
I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is. — Gustave Flaubert
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that… — E. M. Forster
An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility. — Tim Cahill
Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivilous: each… — Cyril Connolly
Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of… — Dean Koontz
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your… — Khalil Gibran
Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow. — Sebastian Horsley
We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in… — Swami Satchidananda
When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be… — Swami Satchidananda
He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay, and there in… — Walter de La Mare
It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be… — Charlotte Bronte
You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair. — Mary Balogh

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