Tranquil Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is tranquil people who accomplish much.

  Henry David Thoreau

  People, Tranquility, Accomplish

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• Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister.

  Stephen King

  Baby, Children, Stupid

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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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• I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I have nothing now or in the future to be ashamed of in this situation. That, at bottom, I myself have in a certain sense asked for this detention and this sentence, because I've always refused to change my opinion, for which I would be willing to give my life and not just remain in prison. That therefore I can only be tranquil and content with myself.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Giving, Political, Would Be

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• Eros is not tranquil-it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.

  François Lelord

  Falling In Love, Expression, Giving

  "Ideas for modern living: love" by François Lelord, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.

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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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• I want people to look at themselves. I want people to go into a space for meditation. It's funny to use a word like meditation as the music is fairly brutal but there is a hypnotic element to it and the way that I try and create that for someone just happens to be through a fairly heavy form of music. You are constantly barraged and beaten down with a lot of bullshit and I find that heavy and extreme music helps me to go into a very tranquil place and I hope, more than anything, that the music does create a space for people to go inward with.

  David W. Marsden

  People, Bullshit, Meditation

  Source: thequietus.com

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• You need to put easy, nice, tranquil thoughts in your head before you go to bed. You know what I do? I read metaphysical books. The good stuff stays in your brain once you go under.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Nice, Book, Brain

  "Cristina: A Diet for High Energy". Interview with Candace A. Wedlan, articles.latimes.com. February 19, 1997.

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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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• Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink a lot of strong coffee to hurry them up, or smoke packages of cigarettes, or take drugs or get drunk. They do not know that ideas come slowly, and that the more clear, tranquil and unstimulated you are, the slower the ideas come, but the better they are.

  Brenda Ueland

  Strong, Coffee, Writing

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had In his high mountain cradle in Pamere, A foiled circuitous wanderertill at last The longed-for dash of waves is heard, and wide His luminous home of waters opens, bright And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.

  Matthew Arnold

  Stars, Home, Sea

  'Sohrab and Rustum' (1853) l. 886

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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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• Our state of mind plays a major role in our day-to-day experiences as well as our physical and mental well-being. If a person has a calm and stable mind, this influences his or her attitude and behavior in relation to others. In other words, if someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Attitude, Play

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.51, Penguin Books India

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• Tho' the world could turn from you, This, at least, I learn from you: Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought, The singer, upward-springing, Is grander than his singing, And tranquil self-sufficing joy illumes the dark of thought. This, at least, you teach me, In a revelation: That gods still snatch, as worthy death, the soul in its aspiration.

  Robert Williams Buchanan

  Dark, Self, Joy

  Robert Williams Buchanan (1865). “Undertones”, p.11

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• I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Differences, Solitude

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.294

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heart, Calm Mind, Christ

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 589), 1895.

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