Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Perhaps I need some shattering experience to awaken and inspire me, or at least to give me some emotion to recollect in tranquility. But how to get it? Sit here and wait for it or go out and seek it?. . . I expect it will be sit and wait.
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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.
Practice in tranquility.
An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.
Our common goal should be the development of a system of equal security for all governments. System adequate [to deal with] modern threats, built on regional and global nonaligned bases. Only then can we ensure peace and tranquility in the world.
First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign ourselves and all that we have to the will of God, and at the same time we should surrender our affections to him as our Conqueror and Overlord.
Motion is tranquility.
I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
God bless you all with peace, tranquility and good will.
Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it
It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain. . . that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility.
Movement is tranquility.
Tranquility is the Truth, Truth is beauty beauty is happiness and bliss is divine
There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul.
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.