Tranquility Quotes - Page 7

• Peace is freedom in tranquility.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace

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• It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sloth, Ease, Laziness

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.11

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• Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the eye of benevolence sparkles at the sight of happiness and plenty: in winter, compassion melts at universal calamity, and the tear of softness starts at the wailing of hunger and the cries of the creation in distress

  Samuel Johnson

  Spring, Heart, Eye

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• What is first seen as a loss is now seen as a gain. For he finds solitude, not in far off, quite places; he creates it out of himself, spreads it around him, wherever he may be, because he loves it and slowly he ripens in this tranquility. For the inner process is beginning to unfold, stillness is extraordinarily important.

  Janwillem van de Wetering

  Loss, Positivity, Solitude

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• Forgiveness is not simply the absolving of an enemy, or one who has done us wrong. Forgiveness must encompass all those things which disturb the tranquility of our soul: the barking dog that robs you of sleep, the heat of summer, the cold of winter. Forgive the ingrown toenail, the flea that bites; forgive the cranky child, wrinkles, a forgotten birthday.

  Barbara Wood

  Forgiveness, Summer, Dog

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• Invite Tranquility
  The sea,--
  Something to look at
  When we are angry.

  Reiko Chiba

  Sea, Looks, Invites

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• The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.

  Rama Swami

  Wise, Wisdom, Peace

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• Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Sacrifice, People, Church

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• A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.

  Elbridge Gerry

  Adventure, Army, Temptation

  Constitutional Convention, 1787.

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• I know exactly what I want. Everything. Calm, peace, tranquility, freedom, fun, happiness. If I could make all that one word, I would - a many-syllabled word.

  Johnny Depp

  Happiness, Peace, Fun

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• The greatest thing that can happen to the state of Queensland and the nation of Australia would be if and when we get rid of the media. Then we would live in peace and tranquility - but no one would know anything!.

  Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen

  Media, Ifs And, Australia

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• Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Believe, Men, People

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• The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if possible, eliminating romantic love from your life, which is the love that makes you suffer. That way, I assure you, you live with greater tranquility and enjoy things more.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Sex, Romantic Love, Knowing

  Mario Vargas Llosa (2012). “The Bad Girl”, p.76, Faber & Faber

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• In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our errors and our lies always appear before us to seduce us; they attack us even in our fasting or our mortifications, in other words, in our very strength.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Lying, Passion, Heart

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• Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

  William Wordsworth

  Poetry, Outcomes, Emotion

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• The Constitution, when it says, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America," meant just what it said without reference to color or condition, ad infinitum.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, Blessing, Order

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• Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

  William Godwin

  Passion, Revolution, Quiet

  William Godwin (1798). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.244

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• Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.

  Xunzi

  Lying, Journey, Hiking

  Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.186, Stanford University Press

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• We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Government, Self, Quiet

  C. E. Donkoh, Kwame Nkrumah (1978). “Mother Africa mourns Kwame Nkrumah, the Emancipator”

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• Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

  Jack Levine

  Different, Quiet, Painting

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• Motion is tranquility.

  Stirling Moss

  Quiet

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• I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

  James Dickey

  Fever, Want, Quiet

  James Dickey (1984). “Sorties”, p.59, LSU Press

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• As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Doctors, Data, Wish

  "Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes". Book by Andy Rooney, 2004.

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• Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.

  Sidney Altman

  Inspiration, Opportunity, Government

  Sidney Altman's speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

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• After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.

  William Lilly

  Years, Majesty, Quiet

  William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.150

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