Tranquil Quotes - Page 10

• An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Heart, Riches, Devotion

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.21

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• All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

  Lenny Bruce

  Despair, World, Disease

  The Essential Lenny Bruce, ed. John Cohen, epigram (1967)

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• Inside each one of us is a beautiful flower garden. This is the garden of the soul. With each lesson we learn, the garden grows. As we learn together, our individual gardens form a tranquil paradise.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Beautiful, Flower, Garden

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