“Consciously cultivate the ordinary.”
Calm feeling
Calm Quotes — page 151 of 276
“True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?”
“In the twilight, it was a vision of power.”
“And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.”
“Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance”
“Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.”
“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.”
“Things are solved by walking around.”
“Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.”
“Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.”
“I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.”
“In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.”
“The only thing I don't like is the uneasiness of dealing with the airlines. Everything, except getting from point A to point B, I still find immensely pleasurable.”
“Looking at her is like waking up.”
“So small as to be negligible. It's strange, but there's something in that thought that makes me feel almost...free.”
“Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.”
“I am like a child who awakes At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks, In Thee I am ever secure.”
“Sleep comes more easily than it returns.”
“My hole is warm and full of light.”
“I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.”