Calm feeling

Calm Quotes — page 139 of 276

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May Sarton Poet
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“It is dark now. The snow is deep blue and the ocean nearly black. It is time for some music.”

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
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“If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.”

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Ming-Dao Deng Author
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“Trees in winter lose their leaves. Some trees may even fall during storms, but most stand patiently and bear their fortune.”

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
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“In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East-especially in India-I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening without a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving-it is not in the result of loving.”

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Knute Nelson Politician
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“Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie.”

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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist
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“My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.”

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Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet
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“It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.”

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Pablo Neruda Poet, Diplomat
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“Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout.”

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e. e. cummings Poet, Painter
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“Meanwhile myself et cetera lay quietly in the deep mud et cetera (dreaming, et cetera, of your smile eyes knees and of your Etcetera.)”

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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist
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“At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.”

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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist
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“Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.”

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