Tranquility Quotes - Page 4

• The world is fleeting; all things pass away; Or is it we that pass and they that stay?

  Lucian

  Passing Away, Fleeting, World

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• Acquire knowledge, and learn tranquility and dignity.

  Umar

  Dignity, Acquire

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• Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.

  Matthew Arnold

  Crowns, Calm, Wells

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.945, Delphi Classics

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• A happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.

  Ann Landers

  Sunset, Lovely, Sensual

  Ann Landers (2017). “Since You Ask Me”, p.76, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure.

  Matsuo Basho

  Men, Color, Example

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• I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Clothes, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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• We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Action, Used, Humans

  V.S. Pritchett (2011). “The Other Side of a Frontier”, p.351, A&C Black

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• You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

  Arundhati Roy

  Running, Risk, Quiet

  "Arundhati Roy On the Indian Elections, Her Support for the Iraqi Resistance & the Privatization of War". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 19, 2004.

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• Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

  Daniel Webster

  Inspirational, Anger, Management

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• The good man is the friend of all living things.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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• Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Passion, Hypocrisy

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1727, Delphi Classics

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• Keep cool and you will command everyone.

  Justinian I

  Calm, Command, Calmness

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• There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Fear, Mind, Desire

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in no way influence fate, whereas one may weaken the constitution by the waste of energy while indulging in them.

  George Hackenschmidt

  Fate, Reflection, Worry

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• The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Agitation, Doe, Littles

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• Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Life, Wisdom, Patriotic

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• You can't find peace by avoiding life.

  Michael Cunningham

  Peace, Avoiding Death, Avoiding Pain

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• Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Shutting Down, Quiet, Volume

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.315, A&C Black

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

  Samuel Adams

  Gun, Hands, Security And Freedom

  Samuel Adams' Speech delivered at the State House in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, August 1, 1776.

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• My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

  Walter Matthau

  Funny, Life, Hilarious

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• The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Patience, Philosophical

  "Living Like Benjamin: Making Dreams Come True". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (p. 143), November 1, 2007.

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• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fashion, Meditation, Silence

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.161, Univ of California Press

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• You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

  Michael Cunningham

  Peace, Avoiding Death, Avoiding Pain

  "The Hours". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Passion, Perfection, Peaceful

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.44, Wordsworth Editions

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• Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it.

  Bernard Williams

  Harder

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