best quotations about
Tranquillity |
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Quotations
 | Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 12 likes |
| To a mind that is still the whole universe surrenders. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 7 likes |
 | Nothing contributes more to a person's peace of mind than having no opinions at all. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 7 likes |
 | He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 7 likes |
 | Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquillity and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness. — Epicurus, 341-270 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 7 likes |
 | Be an empty page, untouched by words. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 6 likes |
| Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 5 likes |
 | Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty — Thomas Jefferson, 1749-1826, American President [1801-1809] 5 likes |
 | Seeing twilight fall should be prescribed by doctors. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 4 likes |
 | In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! — Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer 4 likes |
 | Here at the quiet limit of the world. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 3 likes |
 | Tranquillity is found also in dungeons; but is that enough to make them desirable places to live in? — Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher 3 likes |
| When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 2 likes |
 | It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 2 likes |
 | For there is no such thing as perpetual Tranquility of mind, while we live here; because Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Fear, no more than without Sense. |
 | I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is. |
 | Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. |
 | When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused. |
 | The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
| Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
| When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
 | During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman. |
| Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. |
| The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, willfulness and patience. Courage strengthens, willfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility. |
 | Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one. |
| At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world. |
| To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. |
 | When the cricket’s song is the only sound you hear, how peaceful the whole earth seems. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | M. once said that he likes peace, quiet, isolation. Someone answered him: that’s how hospitals are. |
 | Sobriety is the strength of the soul, for it preserves its reason unclouded by passion. |
 | No pressure. Just relax and watch it happen. |
Ancient Greek
| The just man is most free from disturbance, while the unjust is full of the utmost disturbance. O δίκαιος αταρακτότατος, ο δ’ άδικος πλείστης ταραχής γέμων. — Epicurus, 341-270 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 23 likes |
Proverbs
 | To live in peace, one must be blind, deaf and mute. 3 likes |
 | After a storm comes a calm. 2 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | It is so quiet out here, it is the quietest place in the world. — from the film Stalker (1979) 5 likes |
