Best Tranquil Quotes

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease.

This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one’s fate.

I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

The gods and their tranquil abodes appear, which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with showers, nor does the white snow, hardened by frost, annoy them; the heaven, always pure, is without clouds, and smiles with pleasant light diffused.

The breeze and the dew make tranquil the clear dawn;
Behind the curtain there is one who alone is up betimes.
The orioles sing and the flowers smile –
Whose then, after all, is the Spring?

My mind is tranquil. I allow peace into my life

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

It is therefore essential to let the ‘heart spirit’ settle like calm water. Then it becomes a tranquil lake in which the sky is reflected, in which the face of Christ can be seen.

The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle.

I hear my heartbeat. I have been looking at him too long, but then, he has been looking back, and I feel like we are both trying to say something the other can’t hear, though I could be imagining it. Too long – and now even longer, my heart even louder, his tranquil eyes swallowing me whole.

If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it is just as true that calling up a moment of anguish in a tranquil mood, seated quietly at one’s desk, is a source of profound satisfaction.

I would like a more missionary church,Not so much a tranquil church, but a beautiful church that goes forward.

We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil.

A tranquil conscience invites freedom from anguish, sorrow, guilt, shame, and self-condemnation. It provides a foundation for happiness. It is a condition of immense worth.

When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. (151)

I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less.

I love tranquil solitude
And such society
As is quiet, wise, and good.

There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

Mild is the slow necessity of death;
The tranquil spirit fails beneath its grasp,
Without a groan, almost without a fear,
Resigned in peace to the necessity;
Calm as a voyager to some distant land,
And full of wonder, full of hope as he.

I love tranquil solitude.

How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the horror of uninhabitable deserts; who have flung themselves into humiliation, degradation, and the contempt of the world, and have enjoyed these and even sought them out.

The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;- on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.

Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it’s own accord.

Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows
Like the wave;
Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.
Love tends life a little grace,
A few sad smiles; and then,
Both are laid in one cold place,
In the grave.

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 so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.

Cats are peaceful and tranquil – they bring calmness with their serene personalities.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

I suppose also that watching marketing and publicity stuff play out from behind the scenes, making those plans and seeing each piece fall into place or not, each year, for each book, has made me a little more tranquil about the process for my own book than I might otherwise be.

Nations, as well as individuals, must be virtuous and righteous if they desire to be stable, prosperous, and tranquil.

Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.

The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.