#tranquility

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

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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

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#heart #i #i am #loyal #sustained

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. ↗

— James Thurber

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What is first seen as a loss is now seen as a gain. For he finds solitude, not in far off, quite places; he creates it out of himself, spreads it around him, wherever he may be, because he loves it and slowly he ripens in this tranquility. For the inner process is beginning to unfold, stillness is extraordinarily important. ↗

— Janwillem van de Wetering

#solar-plexus #tranquility #zen #love

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. ↗

— James Carroll

#meditation #philosophy #relaxation #tranquility #inspirational

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility. ↗

— Jack Levine

#now #painting #recollected #something #tranquility

He smiled his shy smile at her as he went into the yard. Anne took the memory of it with her when she went to her room that night and sat for a long while at her open window, thinking of the past and dreaming of the future. Outside the Snow Queen was mistily white in the moonshine; the frogs were singing in the marsh beyond Orchard Slope. Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#dreamy #loss #memories #touching #tranquility