#tranquility

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility. ↗

— Kwame Nkrumah

#prefer #self-government #servitude #tranquility

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#convention #four #i #nations #peace

Motion is tranquility. ↗

— Stirling Moss

#tranquility

Our life depends on the kind of thoughts we nurture. If our thoughts are peaceful, calm, meek, and kind, then that is what our life is like. If our attention is turned to the circumstances in which we live, we are drawn into a whirlpool of thoughts and can have neither peace nor tranquility. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#eastern-orthodoxy #life #peace #thinking #thoughts

The great secret in salam is it brings love, tranquility and peace to the person receiving the greeting. ↗

— Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf

#peace #salams #secret #tranquility #love

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#beings #cannot #find #human #human beings

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

#been #brethren #content #extraordinary #human

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

#feelings #origin #overflow #poetry #powerful

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#fame #never #tranquility