“I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband.”
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Calm Quotes — page 100 of 276
“Freshness is essential. That makes all the difference.”
“I...am always glad to touch the living rock again and dip my hand in the high mountain air.”
“O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's observatory--whence the dell, In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell, May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep 'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.”
“Light is the task where many share the toil.”
“The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.”
“I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man?s table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one?s self.”
“A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.”
“It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.”
“It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.”
“When i feel tense, I remember to relax all of the muscles and organs in my body”
“Today I create a stress-free world for myself.”
“We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.”
“I move in the university of the waves.”
“As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.”
“The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external foe, but is within us. Therefore, the solution is within us too. However, that inner change does not take place immediately in the way that we switch on a light, but takes weeks, months and years.”
“Too much of a self-centered attitude creates mistrust and suspicion in others, which can in turn lead to fear. But if you have more of an open mind, and you cultivate a sense of concern for others' well-being, then, no matter what others' attitudes are, you can keep your inner peace.”
“Developing concern for others, thinking of them as part of us, brings self-confidence , reduces our sense of suspicion and mistrust, and enables us to develop a calm mind.”
“So, to prevent fatigue and worry, the first rule is: Rest often. Rest before you get tired.”
“As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not conciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God.”