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Tranquility is not weakness

from tranquility emerges power and strength.
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And here lies the essential between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.

Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
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And here lies the essential difference between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.

Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
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She felt all right. Her heart was like a drum hanging from piano wire in her chest, slowly, slowly beaten. Her hands and feet were numb, not with cold but with a sultry torpor. Thoughts moved with a tranquil lethargy, her brain a leisurely machine imbedded in swaths of woolly packing.She felt all right.

Richard Matheson, I Am Legend and Other Stories
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A little tranquil lake is more significant to my life than any big city in the world

Munia Khan
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It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Thomas Jefferson
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I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

James Dickey
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A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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