#tranquillity

I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green. ↗

— Emilia Clarke

#being #calm #come #countryside #find

People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast. ↗

— Thomas Kincade

#beauty #broadcast #faith #family #home

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#action #atmosphere #combination #perfect #place

Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#been #follow #forward-looking #generous #government

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

— Jacob Bronowski

#beings #cannot #find #human #human beings

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. ↗

— Chanakya

#greedy #happiness #here #moving #peace

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. ↗

— Ann Landers

#brilliance #comet #fleeting #happy #happy marriage

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#gone #heaven #like #sea #ships

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

— George Santayana

#creative #mankind #periods #prolific #seldom