Tranquillity Quotes - Page 5

Humility, however deep it be, neither disquiets nor troubles nor disturbs the soul; it is accompanied by peace, joy and tranquillity.

Teresa of Avila

Humility, Joy, Soul

St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “The Way of Perfection”, p.257, Courier Corporation

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To experience conflicts knowingly, though it may be distressing, can be an invaluable asset. The more we face our own conflicts and seek out our own solutions, the more inner freedom and strength we will gain. Only when we are willing to bear the brunt can we approximate the ideal of being the captain of our ship. Spurious tranquillity rooted in inner dullness is anything but enviable. It is bound to make us weak and an easy prey to any kind of influence.

Karen Horney

Faces, Bears, May

Karen Horney (2013). “Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS”, p.27, Routledge

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Power rests in tranquillity.

Lord David Cecil

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We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity.

Heloise

Long, Hatred, Hatred And Love

Abelard, Heloise “Abelard letters”, Lulu.com

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Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

Katherine Cecil Thurston

Cities, Florence, Made

Katherine Cecil Thurston (1906). “The Gambler: A Novel”

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In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Family, Home, House

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If Julian had flattered himself that his personal connexion with the capital of the East would be productive of mutual satisfaction to the prince and people, he made a very false estimate of his own character, and of the manners of Antioch. The warmth of the climate disposed the natives to the most intemperate enjoyment of tranquillity and opulence; and the lively licentiousness of the Greeks was blended with the hereditary softness of the Syrians.

Edward Gibbon

Character, People, History

Edward Gibbon, William Smith (1857). “The Student's Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.174

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In less than seven years the vestiges of the Gothic invasion were almost obliterated, and the city appeared to resume its former splendour and tranquillity. The venerable matron replaced her crown of laurel, which had been ruffled by the storms of war, and was still amused in the last moment of her decay with the prophecies of revenge, of victory, and of eternal dominion.

Edward Gibbon

Revenge, War, Years

Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.338, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.

Baron de Montesquieu

Government, Order, Political

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...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that, according to the past experience of mankind, friendship is the chief joy of human life and moderation the only source of tranquillity and happiness.

David Hume

Past, Joy, Mind

David Hume, Peter Millican (2008). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.102, Oxford University Press

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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Peace, Philosophical, Liberty

Marcus Tullius Cicero (1871). “The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.66

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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.

Charles Horton Cooley

Eye, Reflection, Water

Charles Horton Cooley (2017). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.231, Routledge

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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.

Jane Austen

Heart, Giving, Mind

Jane Austen (2015). “Sense and Sensibility: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.264, 谷月社

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…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.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Summer, Dream, Spring

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