Tranquil Quotes - Page 7

• "Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough reason for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover any reasons for this?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Change, Long, Soul

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• Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good

  Epicurus

  Happiness, Pleasure, Humans

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• Mild is the slow necessity of death;
  The tranquil spirit fails beneath its grasp,
  Without a groan, almost without a fear,
  Resigned in peace to the necessity;
  Calm as a voyager to some distant land,
  And full of wonder, full of hope as he.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Death, Land, Spirit

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.67, Modern Library

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• It is tranquil people who accomplish much.

  Henry David Thoreau

  People, Tranquility, Accomplish

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• Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.

  Euripides

  Children, Eye, Light

  Euripides, “Children In The House”

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• In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration: - feelings, too, Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Kindness, Heart

  "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 34 (1798)

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• Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in times of great perplexity, I think, to seek out the familiar, and the high shelves and long rows of neatly lined-up spines were immensely reassuring. Amid the smell of ink and binding, the dusty motes in beams of strained sunlight, the embrace of warm, tranquil air, I felt that I could breathe more easily.

  Kate Morton

  Thinking, Smell, Air

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical exercise and half spiritual. The karateist who has given the necessary years of exercise and meditation is a tranquil person. He is unafraid. He can even be calm in a burning building.

  Mas Oyama

  Sports, Spiritual, Exercise

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• The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;- on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.

  Matthew Arnold

  Lying, Moon, Light

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.416, Delphi Classics

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• Cats are peaceful and tranquil - they bring calmness with their serene personalities.

  Chris Evert

  Cat, Personality, Peaceful

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• How peaceful life would be without love.  How safe, how tranquil and how dull.

  Sean Connery

  Peaceful, Dull, Safe

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• I would like a more missionary church,Not so much a tranquil church, but a beautiful church that goes forward.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Church, Missionary

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• What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything around it must also languish; when it sleeps, everything must also sleep; and when it dies, everything must also perish?

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Sleep, Eye, Thinking

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• After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Mind, Passive

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• With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.

  C. S. Lewis

  Happiness, Mother, Fun

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see the processes that are leading toward these clusters of events, they’re happening. The star, the wheel, the butterfly—all are in a subtle state of unrest, waiting for the moment when some invisible mechanism signals that the time has come. Then the star explodes; the wheel makes poor men rich; the butterfly mates and dies.

  Clive Barker

  Stars, Butterfly, Men

  "Galilee". Book by Clive Barker, February 3, 1999.

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• Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Independent, Agriculture, Healthy

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• It's been proven that the thoughts we choose have everything to do with our emotions. I can tell you that a commitment to feeling good can take away a stomach ache, fear, depression, sadness, anxiety - you name it. Any stress signal is a way of alerting you to say the five magic words: I want to feel good. This is your intention to be tranquil and stress free - and it's a way of connecting to spirit.

  Wayne Dyer

  Stress, Sadness, Commitment

  Source: www.drwaynedyer.com

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• The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

  Laozi

  Light, Roots, Darkness

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• Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Running, Errors, Goal

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.3589, 谷月社

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• When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Order, Unity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the photographer plunges into a golden bath, our sentiments take on color; and only then, after that recoil and that trans-figuration, do we understand their real meaning and enjoy them in all their tranquil splendor.

  Georges Duhamel

  Memories, Real, Color

  "The Heart's Domain". Book by Georges Duhamel, 1919.

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• A mind that is characterized by unrest will not be tranquil even in the presence of great calm.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Unrest, Calm

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• Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.

  Graham Hawkes

  Ocean, Thinking, People

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• A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.

  Jacques Roumain

  Dream, Nature, Rain

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