“Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.”
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Calm Quotes — page 107 of 276
“The claw of the magnolia, drunk on its own scents, asks nothing of life.”
“Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think.”
“A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.”
“In Silence there is eloquence.”
“I am so close, I may look distant.”
“When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”
“I love to be by the ocean and have always done my best thinking by the sea. The ebb and flow is like a brain massage and very calming. I am also inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well.”
“Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark green sounds. The grove, suddenly still, is a web of fronds and branches.”
“Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.”
“Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.”
“I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.”
“I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.”
“All action begins in rest... This is the ultimate truth.”
“Stillness is the ruler of haste.”
“Stay at the center and let all things take their course.”
“When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten.”
“Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone”
“All stress comes from resisting what is.”
“The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.”