Tranquility Quotes - Page 14

• Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.

  John Adams

  Banking, Done, Morality

  John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.375

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• The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.

  John Adams

  Character, Law, America

  "Treaty of Tripoli". Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary signed by President John Adams (Article 11), www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 1797.

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• In the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then you might gain that great tranquility that comes from knowing that you've had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.

  James C. Collins

  Meaningful, Hands, Creating

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• I'm able to behave like the guy you see onstage although that's not my entire existence. I might be a portion of that guy. At home, quiet prevails. It's incense, candles and birds chirping. Everything's done to maximize peace and tranquility, because we know when we exit those doors, it's going to be a whole different energy.

  Katt Williams

  Home, Guy, Bird

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• I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.

  Shirley Hufstedler

  Humanity, Age, World

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• I am always torn. Between control and chaos; passion and tranquility. Between what's fated and what I want. Part of me longs to take the plunge, to dive off headfirst and let the feeling of control evaporate on the wind. And part of me wants to be in a place where I'd never have to worry about that choice--or any choice. Where peace and calm are the only things I'd feel.

  Jocelyn Davies

  Passion, Wind, Worry

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• I have been attempting to meditate more. Golf is my state of peace, though. The tranquility of a golf course, all of the trees, the oxygen. It puts me right at ease.

  Mpho Koaho

  Golf, Oxygen, Tree

  "Actor Mpho Koaho: The vulnerable nature of acting, investing in youth programs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I learnt in the jungle that there is a great tranquility associated with having nothing of value

  Jennie Bond

  Jungle, Values

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• And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, America, Years

  "The Other America". Speech at Grosse Pointe High School, March 14, 1968.

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• What I really like to do is to sit quietly and write. All that other stuff is a problem. Publication to reception to negotiation to... everything, it's a problem. And I like to sit outside for long periods of time and just be in the tranquility of nature. That's what I like.

  Mark Helprin

  Writing, Long, Stuff

  Source: americasfuture.org

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• The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus . As we do our part rejoice in the Lord, pursue a gentle spirit, pray about everything, and cling to gratitude, God does his part. He bestows upon us the peace of God. Note, this is not a peace from God. Our Father gives us the very peace of God. He downloads the tranquility of the throne room into our world, resulting in an inexplicable calm. We should be worried, but we aren't. We should be upset, but we're comforted.

  Max Lucado

  Gratitude, Jesus, Father

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on.... He who, without friends to encourage or even without hope to alleviate his misfortunes, can behave with tranquility and indifference, is truly great.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Strength, World, Indifference

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.870

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• Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.

  Paulo Coelho

  Long, Life And Death, Joy

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2010.

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• Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

  Charles Handy

  Learning, Understood

  Charles B. Handy (1998). “Beyond Certainty: The Changing Worlds of Organizations”, p.155, Harvard Business Press

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• They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility. But if anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself poorly. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Believe, Teaching, Waiting

  Speech at dinner for visiting East German dignitaries, Moscow, 17 Sept. 1955

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• When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Health, Doctors

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• Tennis just a game, family is forever.

  Serena Williams

  Family, Games, Tennis

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• You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

  Earl Wilson

  Doctors, Handwriting, May

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• Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents. There is nothing for it but to try and see through our missions to the end, as best we can, for until we do so, we will be permitted no calm.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Fate, Years, Long

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2001). “When We Were Orphans”, p.382, Vintage

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• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.

  Khalil Gibran

  Pain, Self, Sick

  Khalil Gibran, “On Pain”

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• Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace

  Dean Koontz

  Loneliness, Reflection, Doors

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Good Guy”, p.91, Bantam

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• …Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak—and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.

  Pat Conroy

  Imagination, Perfect, Water

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• When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. (151)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Practice, Meditation, Mind

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• R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more than, say, five minutes late. It is therefore clearly as almost infinite variable figure according to circumstances, since the first two factors vary not only with speed as an absolute, but also with awareness of the third factor. Unless handled with tranquility, this equation can result in considerable stress, ulcers, and even death.

  Douglas Adams

  Stress, Two, Variables

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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• Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magesterial wings above the knurled summit of the mountain behind my tent. It was a scene of peerless tranquility, tossed out in Nautre's devil-may-care way, which says: Just open your eyes, my friend, and I'll astonish you every minute of your life.

  Lawrence Millman

  Eye, Sea, Wings

  Lawrence Millman, Paul Theroux (2000). “Last Places: A Journey in the North”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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