Tranquility Quotes

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Tranquility is the old man`s milk

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Alfred North Whitehead

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library

- Aphra Behn

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk

- Charles H. Spurgeon

When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

- Don Williams, Jr.

Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, (sabi) is like this old figure.

- Matsuo Basho

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

- Michel de Montaigne