Tranquility Quotes - Page 2

The beauty of Zen is found in simplicity and tranquility, in a sense of the all-embracing harmony of things.

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.

We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.

Tranquility is the old man's milk.

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

There is a majestic grandeur in tranquillity.

Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.

Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms.

It is tranquil people who accomplish much.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

Well, it's not far down to paradise, at least it's not for me And if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility.

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.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.

Tolerance and tranquility are two characteristics of true love.

I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility. After all this mental lifestyle of the past seven or eight years, it's good to find some outlets that are not bad for my health.

There is no tranquility in ideas.

The splitting up of color [as Impressionists did] brought the splitting up of form and contour . . . Everything is reduced to a mere sensation of the retina, but one which destroys all tranquility of surface and contour. Objects are differentiated only by the luminosity that is given them.

Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. . . . Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential!

Concealment is the foe of tranquility.

I am a glutton for tranquility.

An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.

A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains, fluttering a few moments of tranquility into the turbulent day.