#tranquility

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#quiet #silence #tranquility #life

Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#life #metaphysics #peace #revelation #tranquility

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) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

#mindfulness #tranquility #virtue #nature

Invite Tranquility The sea,-- Something to look at When we are angry. ↗

— Reiko Chiba

#sea #tranquility #nature

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

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine. During an emergency, like an earthquake or a hurricane, taxes pay for rescue workers, shelters, and services. For people whose lives are devastated by other kinds of disaster, like the disaster of poverty, taxes pay, even, for food. ↗

— Jill Lepore

#business #common-defense #disasters #domestic-tranquility #emergencies

Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace ↗

— Dean Koontz

#loneliness #peace #reflection #solitude #tranquility

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#happiness #tranquility #understanding #development