“Take me someplace where we can be silent together.”
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Calm Quotes — page 143 of 276
“I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.”
“What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.”
“Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it call for the elimination of individual traits and peculiarities. The problem that confronts us today, and which the nearest future is to solve, is how to be one's self and yet in oneness with others, to feel deeply with all human beings and still retain one's own characteristic qualities.”
“I try to do a lot of yoga and meditation. I think now it's creating things in times of waiting.”
“Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.”
“I don't even take aspirin.”
“To be concentrated means to live fully in the present.”
“He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.”
“I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.”
“The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.”
“You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.”
“When you take the problems of the world on your shoulders, your body doesn't feel good. It's just that simple. Leave the problems of the world to the individual problem-makers of the world, and you be the joy-seeker that you are.”
“Bear calamities with meekness.”
“whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.”
“... there are spines to which the immobility of worship is not a strain.”
“I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession.”
“Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work.”
“The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes softly out In the red west.”
“Los Angles to me seems to be a little bit more forgiving. They're just as rowdy and they're just as excited but they understand a [botch] happens sometimes, and they're excited to see the show and they just want to have some fun.”