Tranquility Quotes
278 quotes by 234 authors
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It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
— Thomas a Kempis
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As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as…
— Jack Kevorkian
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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
— Billie Jean King
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My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
— Walter Matthau
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While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
— Thomas Moore
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Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
— Marcel Proust
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I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.
— Cesar Romero
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You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to…
— Arundhati Roy
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Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are times of great…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
— George Santayana
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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.
— Peter Shaffer
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The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
— Sivananda
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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.
— Peter Stuyvesant
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Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
— James Thurber
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
— Orson Welles
Who Wrote These Tranquility Quotes
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