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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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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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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
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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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Socrates Philosopher
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"The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate."

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Sri Aurobindo Philosopher, Poet, Politician
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"The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting."

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Esther Hicks Author, Speaker
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"Leverage your time more by spending a little more time every day imagining and a lot less time every day doing. Do a little more imagining and a little more less doing. Until eventually most of what's happening is happening in the cool, calm, anticipatory state. Just imagine yourself into the successes, and watch what happens. Imagine a little more and act a little less."

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Isaac Watts Hymn Writer, Poet
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"Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth."

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Lisa Gardner Author
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"The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted."

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