“The solitude and peace of mind are serving me quite well, not the least of which is due to the excellent and truly enjoyable relationship with my cousin; its stability will be guaranteed by the avoidance of marriage.”
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Calm Quotes — page 129 of 276
“...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.”
“Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one's self.”
“Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.”
“The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.”
“I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.”
“My different personalities leave me in peace now.”
“Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.”
“I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.”
“What a lay me down this is with two pink, two orange, two green, two white goodnights.”
“The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.”
“The principles of my works... are the extinction of expression, permanent covering and contemplative tranquillity... My ideal is the completely dark picture, full of some overwhelming silence.”
“A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.”
“Perhaps Singapore could learn from us a more relaxed way of life.”
“A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.”
“I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.”
“If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.”
“Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.”
“Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.”
“Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives.”