“Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.”
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Calm Quotes — page 153 of 276
“I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.”
“I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone.”
“I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.”
“Life stand still here.”
“So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again.”
“He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.”
“I always stay out of the rehearsal room you know when they first come in. Then once they had chance to play a little bit, then I walk in. Because I've seen guys fall apart.”
“Stirless, I stand at the window, and in the black bowl of the sky glows like a golden drop of honey the mellow moon”
“There is a pleasure in not being pleased.”
“Paradise is where I am”
“When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.”
“Slow down? Rest? With all eternity before me?”
“If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it is, then we will know contentment.”
“Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.”
“I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.”
“There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover.”
“I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.”
“Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.”
“Rest is for the dead.”