tranquillity

"Better one handful with tranquillity than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.

They deemed such activities to be threats to Confucian values and social tranquillity[sic].

Full of great ideas such as:"analyzing what it is in your daily life that disrupts your tranquillity and thinking about what you can do to prevent such disruptions.

Vast expanses of midcentury concrete and bunker-looking buildings gives me a sense of tranquillity, permanence, and purpose.

The best life is oriented around the increasing excellence of the soul and is nourished by moral joy, the quiet sense of gratitude and tranquillity that comes as a byproduct of successful moral struggle.

>and it takes a long time, because they’re slow to trust, slow to really enter into communication with you – then you can probably imagine how they might philosophise.”>Gray believes that humans turned to philosophy principally out of anxiety, looking for some tranquillity in a chaotic and frightening world, telling themselves stories that might provide the illusion of calm.

What matter if none hear of my labours, or if those labours touch only the afflicted and the mediocre?Surely it is well that the happiness of the unfortunate be made as great as possible; and he who is kind, helpful, and patient, with his fellow-sufferers, adds as truly to the world’s combined fund of tranquillity as he who, with greater endowments, promotes the birth of empires, or advances the knowledge and civilisation of mankind.