Stephen King
Author
"The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset."
Calm quotes
Calm
392 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Antonin Artaud
Playwright, Actor, Theorist
"A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . ."
Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything."
Vincent de Paul
Saint, Priest
"Fear not; calm will follow the storm, and perhaps soon."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Politician
"Calm seas never made a good sailor"
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"When you stop searching and you calm down and you put your books away, and you confront yourself and see what you are all about, that will bring about bliss faster than anything you can ever imagine or ever do."
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"I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm."
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"music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man."
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"You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes."
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"The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed."
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"I can be calm and reflective from time to time and other times I can have a burst of energy, that's just me."
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"Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you."
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"Keep calm and carry on."
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"It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm."
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"A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do."
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"There is not enough tea in the world to calm me."
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"There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day."
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"Love is at the Center of our being, and the calm, continuous pulsations of life are governed by Love."
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"Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again."
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"Be patient. Life will offer you another chance as soon as you find calm within, for abundance is born out of calmness."
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"Calmness is always godlike."
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"How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions."
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"You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope."
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"The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune."
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"Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found."
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