Peace is freedom in tranquility.
An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.
I am a glutton for tranquility.
Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.
Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it.
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.
A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.
The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.
To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
Tranquility is the Truth, Truth is beauty beauty is happiness and bliss is divine
It is tranquil people who accomplish much.
The soul is never perfectly secure from the influence of passion; the occasional tranquility she seems to enjoy, is rather relaxation than imperturbable triumph.
We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. . . . . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.
[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made a chart with those virtues plotted against the days of the week. Each day, Franklin would score himself on whether he practiced those thirteen virtues.
Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.