A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero
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MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
[Lat., In animi securitate vitam beatam pon...
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KILROY J. OLDSTER Your mind has become expert in destroying you, because your life consists of simple things.
BHAGWAN RAJNEESH Your mind has become expert in destroying you, because your life consists of simple things.
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as ma...
FRANZ KAFKA TRANQUILITY IS THE STATE OF MIND WHEN NOTHING ELSE MATTERS !
DR.PRASAD RAJHANS Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a...
LILLIE LANGTRY Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a...
ANN LANDERS Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory on...
ROBERT HARRIS Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an
agreeable manner.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A conscience free from guilt leads to tranquility of the mind, and only a tranquil mind can see thin...
BOHDI SANDERS Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON You can be happy in life , if you simply avoid two things, comparing & expectation.
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STEFAN ZWEIG probability is the very guide of life
LEONARD MLODINOW the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell...
JUSTIN PYFROM Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equa...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and...
APHRA BEHN This is the secret of happiness that you have been looking for:
If you are moving in the ...
ABRAHAM HICKS Thankfully, the only thing we need to create a happy life is a willing mind. We all have a mind but ...
AVINA CELESTE Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks.
L...
MARY BALOGH Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the ...
MARK TWAIN You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never liv...
ALBERT CAMUS The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our abilit...
DALAI LAMA XIV Does is make the dragon happy?" Matt asked.
"Does is make the dragon happy?" echoed Tam Lin. "...
NANCY FARMER Thinking about sadness and loneliness, and what it means to be sad, how to live with it, walk throug...
RIITTA KLINT Christian life consists of faith and charity.
MARTIN LUTHER Christian life consists of faith and charity
MARTIN LUTHER There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind, while we live here; because life itself is ...
THOMAS HOBBES The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half of life c...
MARK TWAIN The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tr...
ADAM SMITH Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
UNKNOWN Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER If there is a reason to be sorrowful, then there is a reason to be happy. You have only one lifetime...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Genuine tranquility of the heart and perfect peace of mind, the highest blessings on earth after hea...
SCHOPENHAUER There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts, a law which comes to us not...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable g...
ALBERT CAMUS If there is sin against life, it consists… in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacabl...
ALBERT CAMUS A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
BILLY JOEL If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping f...
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THOMAS CARLYLE Art consists of reshaping life, but it does not create life nor cause life.
STANLEY KUBRICK Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontane...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Life consists of a lot of minor annoyances and a few matters of real consequence.
HARVEY PENICK Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly ret...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
AARON MACHADO The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hopi...
ALBERT CAMUS Work work work work work....It just makes me so happy!
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
WOODY ALLEN In fire there is the spark of chaos and destruction, the seed of life. In ice there is perfect tranq...
— ICY MANIPULATOR Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
JEAN ANOUILH Life with fools consists in drinking; with the wise man, thinking.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Our entire life consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are
JEAN ANOUILH The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and i...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and i...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW In intuitive balance, love is balanced and detached. In the state of intuitive balance, peace and tr...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
SOURCE UNKNOWN The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists ...
MARK TWAIN As married people, we dwell on a spectrum between happy and unhappy, in love and out of love, and we...
ADA CALHOUN There are types of people who want to have leverage over other people's lives. For no other reason t...
C. JOYBELL C. The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the the chance; the last half consi...
MARK TWAIN Life consists of thoughts. The better your thoughts, the more beautiful your life will be.
VIKRANT PARSAI The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists ...
MARK TWAIN Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you
hold well.
BIBLE Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
JOSH BILLINGS Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
HEYWOOD BROWN Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well
JOSH BILLINGS Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well
JOSH BILLINGS Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
DOROTHY PARKER Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the o...
KHALED HOSSEINI I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must ent...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099 The glory of God is a living man; and the life...
IRENAEUS Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, m...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his inst...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself i...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organi...
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OLIVER SENSEN Ich stellte mir seine Gedanken als einen schnellen, schmalen Wasserstrom vor, der sich durch die Fug...
ROBERT HARRIS Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
JAMES THURBER Cicero talks, and people marvel; Ceasar talks and people march
WARREN BENNIS True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Romanes eunt domus
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ISABELLA KOLDRAS, POEM SPRING WALKING IN VAUCLUSE HIL. There are no such things as problems. Problems only exist because of laziness.
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[Lat., In virtute sunt multi adscensus.]
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possess it.
[Lat., Virtute enim...
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[Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.]
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[Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]
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humanity forward, even in the hands ...
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[Lat., Nam non...
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[Lat., Justitia suum cuique distribuit.]
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[Lat., Summum jus, summa injuria.]
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[Sp., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]
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[Lat., In animi securitate vitam beatam pon...
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[Lat., Amicus est tanquam alter idem.]
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[Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]
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inconstancy.
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CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) At whose sight, like the sun,
All others with diminish'd lustre shone.
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[Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) By some fortuitous concourse of atoms.
[Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.]
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[Lat., Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.]
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[Lat....
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of the body.
[Lat., Morbi perni...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Unraveling the web of Penelope.
[Lat., Penelopae telam retexens.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be
counted among great men.
[Lat.,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
[Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like).
(Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the
guilt; and also that some men do not s...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him,
so I am no less pleased with an o...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) His deeds do not agree with his words.
[Lat., Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no
fellowship with virtue.
[Lat., Vol...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men
are caught by it as fish by a hook....
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
[Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation
of age; they adorn prosperity, and ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity
with moderation.
[Lat., Ut adver...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO)