Tranquility Quotes - Page 10

• 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 that it presided over the birth of the universe.

  Sam Harris

  Ocean, Mean, Self

  "On Spiritual Truths" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.

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• A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Rushing, Talent

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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 tranquility when concentration is strong and we have few, if any, thoughts. But other times, we can be flooded with memories, plans or random thinking. It's important not to blame yourself.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Strong, Memories, Thinking

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• I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It is the ultimate source of success in life.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivational, Compassion, Feelings

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (yath?bh?tam). It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins. It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquility and happiness.

  Walpola Rahula

  Optimistic, Buddhism, Views

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• Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Attitude, Thinking

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• Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

  Peter Shaffer

  Passion, Doctors, Medical

  Equus (1973) act 2, sc. 35

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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

  Years, Political, Four

  The New York Times, August 14, 1964.

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• Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall.

  Bob Dylan

  Fall, Fire, Idols

  Song: Changing of The Guards, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.

  John Cage

  Sorrow, Mirth, Emotion

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• The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Stupid, Silly, Doctors

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

  Dorothy Parker

  Sorrow, Emotion, Remembered

  Here Lies "Sentiment" (1939) SeeWilliamWordsworth 6

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• Perfect wisdom, Perfect tranquility,Perfect compassion,arise fromOur love,Our sincerity.Our understanding.

  Gautama Buddha

  Compassion, Perfect, Understanding

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• Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

  Charlie Byrd

  Music, Doctors, People

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• A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes up to the surface at a given moment. A period of gestation is certainly needed, what Wordsworth called ‘emotion recollected in tranquility.’ You cannot write about an experience when you are living it, suffering it. You are too busy surviving to look at it objectively. At least I can’t.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Writing, Gestation Period, Suffering

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• Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. The little pin-pricks of daily life when dwelt upon and magnified, may do great damage, but if ignored or dismissed from thought, will disappear from inanition.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Life, Mind, May

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Time, Society, World

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• The soul of politeness is not a question of rules but of tranquility, humility, and simplicity. And in the taking of tea it finds perhaps its most perfect expression.

  Dorothea Johnson

  Humility, Expression, Perfect

  Dorothea Johnson (2002). “Tea and Etiquette”, p.43, Capital Books

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• There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.

  Marie Osmond

  Baby, Mean, Parenting

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• Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.

  Khalil Gibran

  Adversity, Hardship, Retreat

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• Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism means peace and tranquility to all.

  August Spies

  Mean, Doe, Arson

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• What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce among them wants and perhaps disease which they never before knew and which serve only to disturb that happy tranquility which they and their forefathers enjoyed. If anyone denies the truth of this assertion, let him tell me what the natives of the whole extent of America have gained by the commerce they have had with Europeans.

  James Cook

  Christian, America, History

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• Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Yoga, Keys

  B.K.S Iyengar (2001). “Astadala Yogamala Volume-3”, p.32, Allied Publishers

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• Do not assume that divine guidance flows only when you are in need of help. Guidance continues to flow whether or not you have problems.
  It transcends problems, heartbreaks, and traumas,
  flowing through dreams and illuminations.
  Whether guidance comes during times of tranquility or trauma, however,
  it is up to you to have the courage to acknowledge it

  Caroline Myss

  Dream, Divine Guidance, Illumination

  Caroline Myss (2007). “Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

  Clive James

  Men, Fire, Sound

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