“Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more than he has actually and veritably got to say. Nay, rather every man is admonished and enjoined by the laws of honor, and even of personal ease, to stop short of that point; and at all events to hold his peace and take to his pipe again the instant he has spoken his meaning, if he chance to have any.”
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Calm Quotes — page 154 of 276
“Variety is the condition of harmony.”
“The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.”
“Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.”
“Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.”
“Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.”
“We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.”
“We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.”
“Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight.”
“We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.”
“Balance is overrated.”
“Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.”
“What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself all over the ridges, and the talk of the watercourses everywhere in the hollows! Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants this rain. As long as it talks I am going to listen.”
“One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife.”
“In order to settle down in the quiet of our own being we must learn to be detached from the results of our own activity. We must be content to live without watching ourselves live, to work with expecting immediate reward, to love without an instant satisfaction, and to exist without any special recognition. It is only when we are detached from ourselves that we can be at peace with ourselves.”
“That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.”
“You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids.”
“Mindfulness is about finding ways to slow down and pay attention to the present moment-which improves performance and reduces stress. It’s about having the time and space to attend to what’s right in front of us, even though many other forces are trying to keep us stuck in the past or inviting us to fantasize or worry about the future. It’s about a natural quality each of us possesses, and which we can further develop in just a few minutes a day.”
“I hate going out for lunch during a workday because it slows down my pace and ruins my rhythm. I prefer to eat at my desk. Actually, I wander around the design studio with a plate in my hand as I dine on, for example, salmon sashimi and a salad of tomatoes and mozzarella. I often have a bit of dark chocolate after lunch.”
“I am actually extremely casual in certain environments. But one of the reasons I like living in London, I like the formality of it, as compared to the formality of America - or informality. I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie.”