Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher, Writer
"I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it."
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Tranquility
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility."
Hippocrates
Physician
"Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm."
Khaled Hosseini
Author, Physician
"Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life."
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility."
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"There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God."
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"Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind."
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"Peace is freedom in tranquility."
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"I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is."
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"Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness."
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"Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion."
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"Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it."
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"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."
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"God bless you all with peace, tranquility and good will."
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"The beauty of Zen is found in simplicity and tranquility, in a sense of the all-embracing harmony of things."
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"Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows."
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"Tranquility is the old man's milk."
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"Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries."
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"There is a majestic grandeur in tranquillity."
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"Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there."
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"It is tranquil people who accomplish much."
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"Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms."
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"We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him."
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"Tolerance and tranquility are two characteristics of true love."
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"There is no tranquility in ideas."
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