“But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.”
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Calm Quotes — page 105 of 276
“Even thus last night, and two nights more I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep, by any stealth: So do not let me wear to-night away. Without thee what is all the morning's wealth? Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!”
“When I see someone I think is cool, he's a pretty well-adjusted individual. He's not too affected one way or the other by what's happening, no matter what's going through his mind.”
“The summer breeze was blowing on your face Within your violet you treasure your summery words And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden”
“With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.”
“The movement of life has its rest in its own music.”
“In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.”
“The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep # trust .”
“It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.”
“Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth from space, and country lanes are showing these unexpected subtle risings that find expression in the empty trees.”
“Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.”
“Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.”
“Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.”
“Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.”
“But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.”
“We need changes from the duties and the cares of our accustomed everyday life. They are necessary for healthy, normal living. We need occasionally to be away from our friends, our relatives, from the members of our immediate households. Such changes are good for us; they are good for them. We appreciate them better, they us, when we are away from them for a period, or they us.”
“Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart.”
“These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.”
“A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.”
“Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.”