Tranquillity Quotes

76 quotes by 71 authors

No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect than that which… — Calvin Coolidge
He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose… — Thomas a Kempis
We know what we want. To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the sake of whose… — Buenaventura Durruti
The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer… — Isak Dinesen
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
An adventure is never an adventure while it's happening. Challenging experiences need time to ferment, and adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in… — Tim Cahill
Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness,… — William Loughton Smith
The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow. — Diogenes
What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to… — Epictetus
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. — James Dickey
Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of… — Sidney Altman
After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling… — William Lilly
Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole… — Robert Walpole
Allah will intervene into our emotional states. He can give you tranquillity again; whether it's anxiety, fear, grief, anger - whatever emotion, whatever thing that's… — Nouman Ali Khan
I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore. — Ajahn Sumedho
Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in… — Samuel Johnson
Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent… — Thucydides
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty… — Samuel Johnson
Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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