“If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.”
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Calm Quotes — page 147 of 276
“I find golf very relaxing. It's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive.”
“I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.”
“The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.”
“We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects.”
“I don't get jet lagged that much. I'm so used to traveling and being in different places every day that I can sleep anywhere.”
“I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.”
“It's quantity of time at home and quality of time at work that counts; don't mix them up!”
“If the vessel of our soul is still tossed with winds and storms, let us awake the Lord, who reposes in it, and He will quickly calm the sea.”
“It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.”
“Out of the east on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun and got the drop He said, "Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not.”
“I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.”
“Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.”
“You've only mastered the storm you can sleep through.”
“Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.”
“I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.”
“My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.”
“If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self... so the hell with it... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me.”
“Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.”
“Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.”