宁静致远
Traditional form:
寧靜致遠
Pinyin (reading):
níngjìngzhìyuǎn
Definitions:
- tranquility yields transcendence (idiom); quiet life of profound study
- cf Still waters run deep.
Characters:
- 宁 - calm, peaceful; healthy; rather; to prefer
- 静 - still, quiet, motionless, gentle
- 致 - to send; to present, to deliver; to cause; consequence
- 远 - distant, remote, far; profound
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