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• For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Grateful, Compassion, Practice

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For humans as well as for ships, dark stormy nights are better teachers than tranquil sunny days.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Teacher, Dark, Night

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• I'm at peace with myself. My film just may please audiences. At any rate, it's already a great prize to be part of just 16 films among all of the world cinema out there. I'm tranquil and satisfied.

  Michel Ocelot

  World, May, Cinema

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness or affectionate feeling, the memory of the dead comes over it most powerfully and irresistibly. It would seem almost as though our better thoughts and sympathies were charms, in virtue of which the soul is enabled to hold some vague and mysterious intercourse with the spirits of those whom we loved in life. Alas! how often and how long may these patient angels hover around us, watching for the spell which is so soon forgotten!

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Death, Memories

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• Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Powerful, Farewell, Justice

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• Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international cooperation or international disintegration. Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

  Bernard Baruch

  Lying, Race, Agreement

  Bernard Baruch's Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, June 14, 1946.

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• Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Sports, Baseball, Play

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• Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hope, Mind, Amusement

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.61

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• The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue.
  [Lat., Semita certe
  Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]

  Juvenal

  Path, Life Is, Virtue

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• A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.

  Epictetus

  Sweet, Soul, Rich

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Country, Sea, Comfort

  Rebecca Harding Davis (2010). “Rebecca Harding Davis's Stories of the Civil War Era: Selected Writings from the Borderlands”, p.20, University of Georgia Press

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• The gods and their tranquil abodes appear, which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with showers, nor does the white snow, hardened by frost, annoy them; the heaven, always pure, is without clouds, and smiles with pleasant light diffused.

  Lucretius

  Clouds, Light, Wind

  "De Rerum Natura". Book by Lucretius, III. 18,

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• Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows
  Like the wave;
  Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.
  Love tends life a little grace,
  A few sad smiles; and then,
  Both are laid in one cold place,
  In the grave.

  Matthew Arnold

  Change, Men, Ebb And Flow

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• I think that in fact by taking on the persona of a human being, you begin to realise that it is all ego, and that beneath that ego is something else, and that something else is a tranquil, nonentity, that we are simply drops of the sea, that we belong to each other.

  George Ogilvie

  Thinking, Sea, Ego

  "Epiphanies: George Ogilvie, Director and Pilgrim". "The Spirit of Things" with Rachael Kohn, www.abc.net.au. December 03, 2006.

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• True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes, and the contradictions of life, conducive to some benefit, casts a grave but tranquil light over the prospect of even a toilsome and troubled life.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Disappointment, Light, Benefits

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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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• I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.

  Mary Antin

  Art, Drama, Clouds

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• One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

  Ben Okri

  Fathers Day, Courage, Adversity

  "Ben Okri: My family values". Interview with Juliet Rix, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2010.

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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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• He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted--must be relinquished. What else could one do about it? Things were too complex, but they might be reduced to simplicity again. Recovery was possible.

  Saul Bellow

  Mistake, Recovery, Simplicity

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• In our minds lives the madonna image--the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another at her feet; a woman fulfilled, one who asks nothing more than to nurture and nourish. This creature of fantasy, this myth, is the model--the unattainable ideal against which women measure, not only their performance, but their feelings about being mothers.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Mother, Children, Feet

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• Oft in the tranquil hour of night,
  When stars illume the sky,
  I gaze upon each orb of light,
  And wish that thou wert by.

  George Linley

  I Miss You, Missing You, Stars

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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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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• 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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• I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

  Jose Marti

  Silence, World, Flow

  Jose Marti (2002). “Selected Writings”, p.275, Penguin

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