Tranquility Quotes

• Roger, we copy. It was beautiful from here, Tranquility. Over.

  

  Charles Duke
  • Beautiful
  • Copy
  • Roger

• A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.

  

  Elbridge Gerry
  • Army
  • Adventure
  • Member

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

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Tranquility

• 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
  • Paradise
  • Tranquility
  • Hawai

• Motion is tranquility.

  

  Stirling Moss
  • Motion
  • Tranquility

• 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
  • Circumstances
  • Civilization
  • Desert

• Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.

  

  Walter J. Phillips
  • Water
  • Expressive
  • Turbulence

• In the most absolute tranquility or in the midst of tumultuous events, in safety or danger, in innocence or corruption, we are a crowd of others. And this crowd is certainly a blessing for literature.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Literature
  • Blessing
  • Events

• First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (yath?bh?tam). It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins. It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquility and happiness.

  

  Walpola Rahula
  • Perfect
  • Paradise
  • Buddhism

• The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for.

  

  George Washington
  • Government
  • Enjoy
  • Scene

• Yoga ia a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are.

  

  Erich Schiffmann
  • Experience
  • Stillness
  • Tranquility

• The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Mind
  • Anxiety
  • Confusion

• One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in no way influence fate, whereas one may weaken the constitution by the waste of energy while indulging in them.

  

  George Hackenschmidt
  • Energy
  • Fate
  • Tranquility

• One of the things I've realized in my decades on this planet is that the world goes on no matter what, and if we are to survive with any amount of grace we all need little oases of tranquility and sanity in our lives. For me, an evening of wine in good company is just such a place.

  

  Dave Chambers
  • World
  • Company
  • Wine

• I am a glutton for tranquility.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Tranquility

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