Tranquil Quotes - Page 5

• Heaven begun is the living proof that makes the heaven to come credible. Christ in you is "the hope of glory." It is the eagle eye of faith which penetrates the grave, and sees far into the tranquil things of death. He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Believe, Eye, Eagles

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”, p.364

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• I think that sometimes the great changes in our lives, the ones that divide time, happen so deep down and silently that we don't even know when they occur......It frequently happens that the seasons of the greatest change are the times that feel the most tranquil, the most suspended, the most...timeless.

  Anne Rivers Siddons

  Thinking, Down And, Sometimes

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• There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

  Paul Gauguin

  Ordinary, Noble, Tone

  1885 Letter to Emile Schuffenecker

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• Hedonic Engineering -- The human nervous system studying and improving itself: intelligence studying and improving intelligence. Why be depressed, dumb, and agitated when you can be happy, smart, and tranquil?

  Robert J. Wilson

  Smart, Engineering, Dumb

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• Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.

  Matthew Arnold

  Change, Men

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.62, Delphi Classics

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• How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the horror of uninhabitable deserts; who have flung themselves into humiliation, degradation, and the contempt of the world, and have enjoyed these and even sought them out.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Home, Desert, Degradation

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.42, Stanford University Press

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• The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void. As the stars came nearer, the sky retreated deeper and deeper into the night color. The layers of the Border Range, indistinguishable one from another, cast their heaviness at the skirt of the starry sky in a blackness grave and somber enough to communicate their mass. The whole of the night scene came together in a clear, tranquil harmony.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Stars, Fall, Moon

  Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Snow Country”, p.44, Vintage

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• A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. Yet one is impressed with the thought, the labor, and the struggle, represented in this vast catacomb of books. Who could dream, by the placid waters that issue from the level mouths of brooks into the lake, all the plunges, the whirls, the divisions, and foaming rushes that had brought them down to the tranquil exit? And who can guess through what channels of disturbance, and experiences of sorrow, the heart passed that has emptied into this Dead Sea of books?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dream, Struggle, Book

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.54, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

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• A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise.

  Mark Helprin

  Law, Cities, Promise

  "Always carry a bin bag" by Jemima Lewis, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Society

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

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• Every morning prepare your soul for a tranquil day.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Morning, Catholic, Soul

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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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• Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Effort, Mind, Expecting

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• The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.

  Ajahn Chah

  Confusion, Anxiety, Mind

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• No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass is the sureness of ourselves. Time may make us rugged, ragged round the edges, but know and understand that love is still the safest place to land.

  Rod McKuen

  Mean, Love Is, Land

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• We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Serenity, Midst, Calamity

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• If there were no
  cherry blossoms
  in this world
  How much more tranquil
  our hearts would be in spring.

  Ariwara no Narihira

  Spring, Heart, Would Be

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• The Crown. Place it upon your head and you assume a different post-tranquil yet radiating assurance. Never show doubt, never lose your dignity beneath the crown, or it will not fit. It will seem to be destined for one more worthy. Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emporers crown themselves.

  Robert Greene

  Waiting, Doubt, Different

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Independent, Agriculture, Healthy

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

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Mind, Passive

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

  Chris Evert

  Cat, Personality, Peaceful

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