Tranquility Quotes
278 quotes by 234 authors
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I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of…
— Shirley Hufstedler
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Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.
— Walter J. Phillips
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With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security…
— Robert Toombs
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A happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.
— Ann Landers
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Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.
— Matthew Arnold
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In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their…
— Samuel Adams
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If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquility throughout the four quarters of the land...
— Nichiren
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And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. Learn to become wise. Desire nothing, give up all desires and be…
— Sivananda
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Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magesterial wings above the knurled summit of the mountain behind my…
— Lawrence Millman
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I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
— Robert Frost
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As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the…
— Indra Devi
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Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said,…
— Anthony Edwards
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Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.
— John Ensign
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that…
— Sam Harris
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We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how…
— James Hillman
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so…
— Alfred Hitchcock
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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without…
— Thomas Hobbes
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One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
— Alice James
Who Wrote These Tranquility Quotes
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