“Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.”
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Calm Quotes — page 128 of 276
“A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.”
“Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.”
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”
“He made me love him without looking at me.”
“The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when the latter came I almost felt it a disturbance, and rather still wished it had held aloof.”
“Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.”
“I've been able to see the world many times over. The thing I've learned is less is more. I travel as light as possible. I try to carry on.”
“It's not the rooms, it's the life you live in them”
“The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.”
“Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.”
“If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.”
“So, it's good to be here, wherever I am.”
“Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.”
“Vancouver is one of my favorite places on earth. It's gray and rainy there a lot of the time, but for some reason, even though it's gray and rainy, I feel like it's a sunny day.”
“It is better to live on the house top than to live in a house full of confusion.”
“There are no little things.”
“Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.”
“To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.”
“The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.”