“The whole thing is, do as much as you can, when you possibly can, and don't stress.”
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Calm Quotes — page 15 of 276
“Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow.”
“I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.”
“I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.”
“Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.”
“Don't make a hasty movement. Be like a mountain. Move silently and cautiously.”
“Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbour's faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them. All profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind.”
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
“Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.”
“He receives comfort like cold porridge.”
“The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.”
“The answers you seek never come when the mind is busy, they come when the mind is still, when silence speaks loudest.”
“Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why its good to go outside of the city and the suburbs. Fortunately, there is wilderness just outside the limits of the cities and the suburbs in most of the United States, especially in the West.”
“Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!”
“So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.”
“A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.”
“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
“We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything.”
“Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen.”