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  Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

  Epicurus

  Happiness, Ambition, Men

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• Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left of the barely bearable raw immediacy of childhood, all the things solved that had puzzled me when I was small, all mysteries settled, all questions answered, and the moments dripping away, unnoticed almost, drip by golden drip, toward the final, almost unnoticed, quietus.

  John Banville

  Summer, Long, Childhood

  John Banville (2008). “The Sea”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

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• From the Battle of Trenton to the Argonne, Marines have won foremost honors in war, and in the long eras of tranquility at home, generation after generation of Marines have grown gray in war in both hemispheres and in every corner of the seven seas, that our country and its citizens might enjoy peace and security.

  John A. Lejeune

  Country, War, Home

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• He who believes in God is not careful for the morrow, but labors joyfully and with a great heart. "For He giveth His beloved, as in sleep." They must work and watch, yet never be careful or anxious, but commit all to Him, and live in serene tranquility; with a quiet heart, as one who sleeps safely and quietly.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Sleep, Heart

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• Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Heart, Men

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• What happens with your sex energy depends on how you use it. What it can become does not depend on it alone, but on your understanding and on how you live your life. Have you not observed that it becomes brahmacharya, the state of celibacy when it is transformed? bramhacharya is not hostile to passion; brahmacharya is the purification, the transcendence, the sublimation of passion. In the same way, the energy that manifests itself in violence becomes peace, serenity and tranquility. It is only a question of transformation.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Passion, Serenity

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• Today’s world is traveling in some strange direction. You see that the world is going toward destruction and violence. And the specialty of violence is to create hatred among people and to create fear. I am a believer in nonviolence and I say that no peace or tranquility will descend upon the people of the world until nonviolence is practiced, because nonviolence is love and it stirs courage in people.

  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

  People, Hatred, World

  Interview, 1985.

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• A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Rushing, Talent

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• Neil and Buzz, I am talking to you by telephone from the Oval Office at the White House, and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made. . . . Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world. As you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility to Earth.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Moon, Men, Space

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• It does not matter the circumstances, trials, or challenges that might surround us; an understanding of the doctrine of Christ and His Atonement will be the source of our strength and peace-yes, brothers and sisters, that internal tranquility that is born of the Spirit and which the Lord gives to His faithful Saints.

  Benjamin De Hoyos

  Brother, Giving, Challenges

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• The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested

  Michael M. Honda

  Tragedy, Constitution, Quiet

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• When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence, which is our soul. When we live in the soul, we feel that we are actually meditating spontaneously. On the surface of the sea are multitudes of waves, but the sea is not affected below. In the deepest depths, at the bottom of the sea is all tranquility. So when you start meditating, try to feel your own inner existence first. That is to say, the bottom of the sea: calm and quiet. Feel that your whole being is surcharged with peace and tranquility.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Sea, Soul, Mind

  Sri Chinmoy (2015). “Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life”, p.264, Aum Publications

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  Much like the removal of moles and skin lesions is done to prevent them from growing into more serious skin abnormalities, removing minor discord before it becomes a calamity is an important use of our time. Most people don’t like to make waves and they swallow frustration and bury true feelings, not wanting to compromise temporary tranquility, never realizing that massive turmoil doesn’t start out massive—it grows beneath the skin like a cancer that could have been avoided with early detection.

  T. D. Jakes

  Cancer, Frustration, People

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• Hawai'i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs--islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever happens. It was and is a place where people work and struggle, live and die, as they do the world over.

  Alan Brennert

  Song, Struggle, Islands

  Alan Brennert (2015). “The Hawaii Novels: Moloka'i and Honolulu”, p.845, St. Martin's Press

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• To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

  Harry Vardon

  Peace, Golf, Play

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• Achieve order within yourself...an inward tranquility which knows no disturbance at any moment...in the daily life of the home and the office.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Home, Order

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• I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself.

  Hugh Walpole

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure 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.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Blessing, Order, America

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• A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year.

  William F. Longgood

  Summer, Garden, Years

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• We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.

  Brother Lawrence

  Mind, Trouble, Faithfulness

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the circumstances, and the belief that tranquility was to be found there.

  Wilfred Thesiger

  Civilization, Desert, Unattainable

  Wilfred Thesiger (2008). “Arabian Sands”, p.38, Penguin

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• Methodology is intuition reconstructed in tranquility.

  Paul Lazarsfeld

  Intuition, Methodology

  "The Mind Traveller: A Guide to Paul F. Lazarsfeld's Communicating Research Papers". Book by Ann K. Pasanella, p. 22, 1994.

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• As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does not have to be bold, so poignant it does not have to be pretty, so true it does not have to be real. Shibumi is understanding, rather than knowledge. Eloquent silence. In demeanor, it is modesty without pudency. In art, where the spirit of shibumi takes the form of sabi, it is elegant simplicity, articulate brevity. In philosophy, where shibumi emerges as wabi, it is spiritual tranquility that is not passive; it is being without the angst of becoming.

  Trevanian

  Spiritual, Art, Real

  Trevanian (2005). “Shibumi: A Novel”, p.77, Broadway Books

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• I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.

  Agnes Martin

  Thinking, Perfect, Mind

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• For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Peace, Men, Perfect

  Meditations IV.3

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