#tranquility

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature. ↗

— Robert Toombs

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Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#creative #mankind #periods #prolific #seldom

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. ↗

— William Wordsworth

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Movement is tranquility. ↗

— Stirling Moss

#tranquility

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested. ↗

— Mike Honda

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The positive vibrations of unregulated joy, peace, happiness and tranquility is freedom. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#happiness #joy #peace #positivity #quotes

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#fame #never #tranquility

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#give #neither #nor #occupation #splendor

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#cares #great #heart #his #neither

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#because #beginning #biggest #come #finding