Tranquillity Quotes

• Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

  George Santayana

  Achievement, Creative, Action

  "10 Quotes: Inspire and Motivate" by Sura College of Competition, p. 28, August 1, 2004.

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• Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

  Thomas Moore

  Sea, Heaven, Gone

  Thomas Moore (1823). “The works of Thomas Moore, comprehending all his melodies, ballads, etc”, p.305

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• The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

  Chanakya

  Education, Spiritual, Moving

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• There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Fear, Mind, Desire

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Ann Landers (2017). “Since You Ask Me”, p.76, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• There is a majestic grandeur in tranquillity.

  Washington Irving

  Majestic, Tranquility, Grandeur

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• Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Perfect, Tennis

  "The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes" by Geoff Tibballs, (p. 593), 2004.

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• I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

  Anne Frank

  Peace, Thinking, Confusion

  "Selling the Holocaust: From Auschwitz to Schindler". Book by Tim Cole, p.35, 2000.

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• Far out of sight forever stands the sea,
  Bounding the land with pale tranquillity.

  Yvor Winters

  Sight, Sea, Land

  Yvor Winters (1978). “The collected poems of Yvor Winters”, Swallow Pr

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• That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

  Aphra Behn

  Perfect, Faithful, Library

  Aphra Behn (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)”, p.2628, Delphi Classics

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• Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

  William Wordsworth

  Powerful, Poetry, Feelings

  Lyrical Ballads 2nd ed., preface (1802) See Dorothy Parker 24

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• That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

  Rumi

  Truth, Philosophy, Heart

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.150, Shambhala Publications

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• It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Motivation, Action, Tranquility

  Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor”, p.152, Harper Collins

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• When the autumn meets the tranquillity, there you can see the King of the Sceneries!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Autumn, Scenery

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• After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Years, Political, Four

  The New York Times, August 14, 1964.

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• Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Strong, Government, Neutrality

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.63, Rowman & Littlefield

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• To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind.

  John Tillotson

  Happiness, Pain, Anxiety

  John Tillotson (1819). “The wisdom of being religious”, p.26

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• The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beauty, Morning, Silly

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• A great means to preserve continual peace and tranquillity of soul is to receive everything from the hands of God, both great and small, and in whatever way it comes.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Mean, Hands, Soul

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• Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Self, Meditation Practice

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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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• The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches it produces have no bad effect. The mischief is when excessive wealth destroys the spirit of commerce, then it is that the conveniences of inequality... are felt.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Order, Long, Riches

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• Midnight is another planet! When the clock strikes twelve and if you are asleep, wake up, friend, and discover the beauties of this new planet: Discover the silence; discover the tranquillity; speak to the owls, speak to the moon; greet the hedgehogs and disappear in the midst of the mists!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moon, Silence, Owl

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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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