“I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it.”
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Calm Quotes — page 152 of 276
“Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.”
“Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.”
“The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.”
“To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.”
“Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet”
“The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson”
“I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!”
“O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretch'd beneath the pines When the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and pride of man, At the Sophist's schools, and the learned clan; For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?”
“Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.”
“The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.”
“The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization.”
“And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.”
“There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.”
“What people say doesn't really matter. It's best to just brush it off and move on.”
“That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...”
“Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.”
“He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers up himself to the direction of the wind, and loses all that constancy and equanimity which constitutes the chief praise of a wise man.”
“The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.”
“Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.”