Tranquility Quotes - Page 16

• Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility.

  James Norwood Pratt

  Spiritual, Tea, Clarity

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• Because all existence is founded upon the ever-present state of union, everything already exists in a state of tranquility. However, this state of tranquility is masked from us by our assumption that there is a separation, that there is a problem.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Oneness, Unions, Assumption

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• Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A power that comes from within. Those who submit to the divine essence of life will live in unperturbed tranquility and peace even when the whole wide world goes through turbulence after turbulence.

  Elif Safak

  Mean, Essence, Opposites

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• It is tranquil people who accomplish much.

  Henry David Thoreau

  People, Accomplish, Tranquil

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• Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.

  Le Corbusier

  Green, Noise, Reign

  "The Edict of Chandigarh". Plaque erected at Chandigarh, India, as an abbreviated form of the document "The Establishment Statute of the Land", December 17, 1959.

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• Practice in tranquility.

  Artur Schnabel

  Practice

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• Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.

  Cyril Connolly

  Selfish, Boredom, Bitterness

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• Internationally, I love going to Switzerland. I went there many times for shooting and loved the Alps, the tranquility, cleanliness, the greenery and the warmth of the people there.

  Chiranjeevi

  People, Switzerland, Shooting

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• Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Beautiful, Moon, Blue

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• Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge in idle tranquility with the remark: "The game is won; let's relax." The game is never won. The chances of life are such that anything is possible. Remember what the dangers are for both sexes in middle age. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

  Andre Maurois

  Marriage, Sex, Couple

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• I was no hero. The dearest wishes of my heart were for safety and tranquility. The world was a perilous place, wrong for the likes of me.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Hero, Heart, Safety

  Gail Carson Levine (2013). “The Two Princesses of Bamarre”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility: For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.

  Khalil Gibran

  Pain, Grief, Healing

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

  Ashley Montagu

  Health, Science, Doctors

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• It's not bad enough I am exiled? It's not bad enough you take away the few good heroes I'm allowed to meet? You think it's funny to send me this this ― this charbroiled runt of a boy to ruin my tranquility? This is NOT FUNNY! Take him back!

  Rick Riordan

  Hero, Boys, Thinking

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• I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

  Cesar Romero

  Insomnia, Doctors, Medical

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• When others see you at peace, they’re reminded of the value of tranquility - that is, you inspire them to be at peace.

  Doreen Virtue

  Inspire, Values

  Twitter post from Oct 19, 2016

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• A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Children, Night, Men

  "A Wonderful Life : 50 Eulogies to Lift the Spirit" by Cyrus M. Copeland, (p. 190), 2006.

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• You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.

  Georges Bernanos

  Pockets, World, Busy

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• In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.

  Anne Frank

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

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• Real love brings about calm-not inner torment. True love allows you to be at peace with yourself and with God. That is why Allah says: “that you may dwell in tranquility.” Hawa is the opposite. Hawa will make you miserable. And just like a drug, you will crave it always, but never be satisfied. You will chase it to your own detriment, but never reach it.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Real, Opposites, Drug

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• Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Freedom

  'The Soul of Man under Socialism'

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• My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

  Orson Welles

  Food, Health, Weight Loss

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thinking, Life Death, Hamper

  "No Exit". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.

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• He who keeps his heart near God will find peace and tranquility, whilst he who gives his heart to the people will find restlessness and apprehension.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Heart, People, Giving

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