Tranquility Quotes - Page 7

• Perhaps I need some shattering experience to awaken and inspire me, or at least to give me some emotion to recollect in tranquility. But how to get it? Sit here and wait for it or go out and seek it? . . . I expect it will be sit and wait.

  Barbara Pym

  Giving, Waiting, Inspire

  Barbara Pym (2013). “A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters”, p.109, Pan Macmillan

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• Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.

  Cyril Connolly

  Dream, Selfish, Night

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

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• Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

  E. M. Forster

  Niece, Sky, Rose

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.440, Delphi Classics

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• It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course.

  Anne Rice

  Nature, Blessed, Night

  Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.257, Ballantine Books

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• I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

  William Boyd

  Judgement, Doctrine, Certainty

  William Boyd, John Costello (1991). “Ten days to destiny: the secret story of the Hess peace initiative and British efforts to strike a deal with Hitler”, William Morrow & Co

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• The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Technology, Giving, Mind

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• Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwardly existed in cloistral tranquility, it leads in the long term to overfastidiousness, over-refinement, nervous fatigue and overstimulation, such as can seldom result from a life of the most extravagant passions and pleasures.

  Thomas Mann

  Art, Passion, Adventure

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• The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Rushing, Secret, Events

  Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.174, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• [Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made a chart with those virtues plotted against the days of the week. Each day, Franklin would score himself on whether he practiced those thirteen virtues.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Humility, Order, Justice

  Gretchen Rubin (2009). “The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Forgiveness is not simply the absolving of an enemy, or one who has done us wrong. Forgiveness must encompass all those things which disturb the tranquility of our soul: the barking dog that robs you of sleep, the heat of summer, the cold of winter. Forgive the ingrown toenail, the flea that bites; forgive the cranky child, wrinkles, a forgotten birthday.

  Barbara Wood

  Forgiveness, Summer, Dog

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• What is first seen as a loss is now seen as a gain. For he finds solitude, not in far off, quite places; he creates it out of himself, spreads it around him, wherever he may be, because he loves it and slowly he ripens in this tranquility. For the inner process is beginning to unfold, stillness is extraordinarily important.

  Janwillem van de Wetering

  Loss, Positivity, Solitude

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• Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the eye of benevolence sparkles at the sight of happiness and plenty: in winter, compassion melts at universal calamity, and the tear of softness starts at the wailing of hunger and the cries of the creation in distress

  Samuel Johnson

  Spring, Heart, Eye

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• It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sloth, Ease, Laziness

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.11

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• When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

  Enid Bagnold

  Men, Doctors, Years

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• Peace is freedom in tranquility.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace

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• I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Tired, Doctors, Pills

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• Invite Tranquility
  The sea,--
  Something to look at
  When we are angry.

  Reiko Chiba

  Sea, Looks, Invites

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• He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Peace

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• Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

  Marcel Proust

  Intelligent, Gambling, Doctors

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• I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Believe, Thinking, Don't Believe

  Gustave Flaubert, (Ivan Sergeevič) Turgenev (1985). “Flaubert and Turgenev, a Friendship in Letters: The Complete Correspondence”, Burns & Oates

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• A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains, fluttering a few moments of tranquility into the turbulent day.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Moments, Fluttering, Curtains

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• Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Night, Silence, Promise

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Dec 30, 2013

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• We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.

  Brother Lawrence

  Mind, Trouble, Faithfulness

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Achieve order within yourself...an inward tranquility which knows no disturbance at any moment...in the daily life of the home and the office.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Home, Order

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• A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year.

  William F. Longgood

  Summer, Garden, Years

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