Tranquillity Quotes
76 quotes by 71 authors
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
— Neil Armstrong
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That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
— Aphra Behn
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The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
— Chanakya
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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not to let it wander too…
— Brother Lawrence
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The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is quiet because he…
— Zhuangzi
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Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is…
— Pema Chodron
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions…
— Alexis Carrel
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I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always…
— Giorgio Morandi
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Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
— William Wordsworth
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Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely…
— Charles Lamb
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There is perhaps, nothing more likely to disturb the tranquillity of nations, than their being bound to mutual contributions for any common object that does…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green.
— Emilia Clarke
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Israel cannot continue to exist in an atmosphere of peace and tranquillity without threats and aggression. If this regime stays on one inch of Palestine’s…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When we renounce our dreams, we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquillity, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us and…
— Paulo Coelho
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This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the militant Church of…
— Pope Leo X
Who Wrote These Tranquillity Quotes
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