Tranquil Quotes - Page 9

• How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!

  Jules Verne

  Heaven, May, Buried

  Jules Verne (2011). “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, p.57, ABDO

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• It is because of their tranquil thoughts That creatures go to prosperity.

  Gautama Buddha

  Prosperity, Creatures

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• The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Servant Of God, Perfect, Soul

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• I like a tranquil, even-keeled, self-controlled God. A God who doesn't fly off the handle at the least provocation. A God who lives one step above the fray. A God who has that British stiff upper lip even when disaster is looming. When I read my Bible, though, I keep running into a different God, and I'm not pleased. This God says he "hates" sin. Well, he usually yells it. Read the prophets. It's just one harangue after another, all in loud decibels. And when the shouting is over, then comes the pouting. ... When all else fails, he throws himself in front of the car.

  Mark Galli

  Running, Hate, Self

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• Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.

  Laozi

  Names, Simplicity, Being Free

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• [Concerning the Water Ouzel, now called American Dipper:] In a general way his music is that of the streams refined and spiritualized. The deep booming notes of the falls are in it, the trills of rapids, the gurgling of margin eddies, the low whispering of level reaches, and the sweet tinkle of separate drops oozing from the ends of mosses and falling into tranquil pools.

  John Muir

  Sweet, Fall, Water

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• Praised be St John, the glorified of God! Lord, grant me the prayers of St John, disciple and friend whom thou lovest, apostle of love. Thy love, forever, eternal, that my faith may become as complete, as flaming and tranquil, as his, and pierce as deep and speak as simply in the spirit.

  Eric Milner-White

  Prayer, Forever, May

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• I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Men, Horizon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.37, Harvard University Press

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• If an individual has a calm state of mind,
  that person's attitudes and views will be calm and tranquil
  even in the presence of great agitation.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Views, Mind

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• There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.

  Laurence Sterne

  Real, Acquiescence, Definitions

  Laurence Sterne (1814). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.330

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• I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

  Mark Twain

  Blessed, Yesterday, Michael Angelo

  Mark Twain (1869). “The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress”, p.288

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• Remain tranquil and prepare to bear still greater trials. All is not lost even though you be troubled oftener or tempted more grievously. You are a man, not God. You are flesh, not an angel. How can you possibly expect to remain always in the same state of virtue when the angels in heaven and the first man in paradise failed to do so? I am He who rescues the afflicted and brings to My divinity those who know their own weakness.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Angel, Men, Heaven

  Thomas (à Kempis), Thomas A. Kempis, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton (2003). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• If you don't read news.groups, the net appears to be a rather tranquil place.

  Karl Lehenbauer

  Groups, News, Ifs

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• Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.

  William Arthur Ward

  Water, Dams, Reckless

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.

  Confucius

  Happiness, Wise, Long

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.192, Courier Corporation

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• One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour. A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Rain, Men, Mind

  Tsunetomo Yamamoto (2001). “The Hagakure - The Way of the Samurai”, p.60, BoD – Books on Demand

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• If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease

  Dalai Lama

  Fall, Mind, Body

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.8, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at midnight.

  Kay Ryan

  Flower, Color, Midnight

  Kay Ryan (2007). “Say Uncle: Poems”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When you are feeling very passionate, lust, sex takes over. Just try to be tranquil in the breathing, and you feel sex has disappeared.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Breathing, Feelings

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• It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Gone, Tranquility, Reason

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.73, Penguin

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• And that third dimension brings bliss. Bliss is without any opposite to it. It is serene, tranquil, cool. It is ecstasy without any excitement.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Opposites, Dimensions

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• Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Sage, Occupation

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• I went whenever I could, and always my eyes lifted to the hills. I was to find a spiritual and physical satisfaction in climbing mountains and a tranquil mind upon reaching their summits, as though I had escaped from the disappointments and unkindness of life and emerged above them into a new world, a better world.

  Alfred Wainwright

  Life, Spiritual, Disappointment

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• Liberty is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyme

  George Washington

  Government, Law, Names

  George Washington (1838). “Monuments of Washington's patriotism: containing a fac simile of his publick accounts kept during the revolutionary war; and some of the documents connected with his military command and civil administration; together with an eulogium on the character of Washington, by W. Jackson”, p.15

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• A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Women, Angry Man, Goes On

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1660, e-artnow

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