Chaos Quote by James Thurber

I think a sense of humor is the emotional equivalent of a sense of realism. One should not take everything seriously, and everybody takes…

— Michael Maccoby

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive.

— Gregory Orr

Believe what you believe and it will be, believe what others believe and they will consume you.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

— Hermann Hesse

“The sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our…

— Samuel Adams

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and…

— John Evelyn

“To pass from the extremes of danger to safety-from the tumult of war to the tranquility of peace, though sweet in contemplation, requires a…

— Thomas Paine

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…

— Sam Harris

“It was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.”

— Charlotte Brontë

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Establish a "zone of tranquility" where your drunken wife can't find you.”

— Viktor Kalvachev