There is a majestic grandeur in tranquillity.
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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.
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.
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
Far out of sight forever stands the sea, Bounding the land with pale tranquillity.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
When the autumn meets the tranquillity, there you can see the King of the Sceneries!
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.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
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.
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.
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.
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.
…the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.
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