“The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.”
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Calm Quotes — page 110 of 276
“Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.”
“The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.”
“Your house is your larger body.”
“Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment.”
“I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.”
“Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.”
“When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose.”
“Wherever you are, be there. Lifestyle is not something we do; it is something we experience. And until we learn to be there, we will never master the art of living well.”
“God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.”
“I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all the small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. But, talking to you makes me feel like the fan's been turned off for a little bit. Like things could actually make sense. You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that so much.”
“Rituals are important.”
“Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.”
“The dew waits for no voice to call it to the sun.”
“Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.”
“Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.”
“Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.”
“When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. . . . Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.”
“Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.”
“Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.”