“I do most of my shopping online. It's just convenient for me.”
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Calm Quotes — page 135 of 276
“Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.”
“It's not time to worry yet”
“The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.”
“Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.”
“Unkind people spread malicious tales, and well-intentioned people also censure; but in either case the tranquil sage remains unconcerned. Nowhere is there to be found a disconcerted sage.”
“Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center.”
“Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.”
“In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.”
“In prison, illusions can offer comfort.”
“I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.”
“If we practice mindfulness, we always have a place to be when we are afraid.”
“If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us - our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states. That is why the practice of meditation, looking deeply, is so important.”
“Come back to yourself. Return to the voice of your body. Trust that much.”
“I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.”
“Surfing is all about living in the moment. When you walk out on the Sydney Cricket Ground to play cricket you're intensely aware of the history of the sport; you're playing on this historic ground surrounded by pictures of the legends. With surfing, you just dive into the water and paddle out and catch waves.”
“Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror.”
“The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down. When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you're supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness.”
“The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.”
“So I live in Los Angeles, and it's kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain it. It has a charming kind of superstitious innocence.”