Unkind people spread malicious tales, and well-intentioned people also censure; but in either case the tranquil sage remains unconcerned. Nowhere is there to be found a disconcerted sage.
How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!
I got letters from people that have had peculiar psychic experiences, experiences with the dead - sometimes fairly tranquil experiences and sometimes very terrifying experiences. I do believe that a lot of them are sincere. I do believe, also, that some of them may be misguided. But, I think the majority of them have experienced something.
I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.
I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.
Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to the shop. That wainscot to the carpenter, But my mind my tranquil and eternal Mind Return it to whom?
We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts, but beauty also lulls. Early associations endear, but they also confuse. Through that beautiful solemnity, the transporting or horrifying realities of which the Book tells may come to us blunted and disarmed, and we may only sigh with tranquil veneration when we ought to be burning with shame, or struck dumb with terror, or carried out of ourselves by ravishing hopes and adorations.
Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.
People talk about apathy, especially in developed countries. We're kind of lulled into these tranquil lives, and we are pursuing our own thing and there is so much suffering on a mass scale around the world that you kind of become fatalistic. You might think suffering is inevitable, you kind of lose your sense of moral urgency. But there is always something you can do for someone in the world.
When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
Cats are peaceful and tranquil - they bring calmness with their serene personalities.
A too closely watched flowerblossoms the wrong color. Excess attention to the jonquilturns it gentian. Flowersneed it tranquil to gettheir hues right. Someonly open at midnight.
I would like a more missionary church,Not so much a tranquil church, but a beautiful church that goes forward.
Deep in the world of atomic nuclei, life is not always tranquil.
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.
How peaceful life would be without love. How safe, how tranquil and how dull.
To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes, despite the hysteria in the streets that the world of tranquil certainties we were born into is about to be extinguished.
Without trust, there can be no tranquil resting of the mind.