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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
Motion is tranquility.
Movement is tranquility.