“Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?”
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Calm Quotes — page 116 of 276
“Don't Let the Elusive Present Moment Get Used Up by Thoughts that Aren't in the Here & Now”
“Give yourself the gift of nature as often as you can.”
“There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse.”
“Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.”
“Life is a vacation from two eternities.”
“And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer to have others provide the food ... some of them do. There must have been a split between the cats who accepted domestication and those who did not.”
“Unquiet meals make ill digestions.”
“Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.”
“Truth hath a quiet breast.”
“Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.”
“Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.”
“Allow not nature more than nature needs.”
“Far from the world I walk, and from all care.”
“The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.”
“It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.”
“A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.”
“I'm too busy. I have no time for worry.”
“Don't go to the funeral until the day of the funeral - live this day.”
“To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.”