“One may come armoured, Invinsible. His will immobile meets the mobile hour. The world blows cannot bend this Victor Head. Calm and sure are his steps in the growing night. The goal recedes, he hurries not his pace. He asks from no help from the inferior Gods. His eyes are fixed on the immutable aim.”
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Calm Quotes — page 156 of 276
“Healthy is being physically strong, mentally calm and steady and emotionally soft”
“We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.”
“Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.”
“I try to exercise regularly every day, if I can. It renews you and it gives you more balance in your life. This is a key leverage point.”
“I find most meetings are a waste of time, because they are so ill-prepared and there's little opportunity for true synergy in producing better solutions than what anyone originally thought of. So I work hard to only attend those meetings that have strategic importance and miss all kinds of other seemingly urgent meetings.”
“Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?”
“The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon.”
“Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters.”
“No disrespect to the country. It's a wonderful place, the where's he gone again?”
“Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself; and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense.”
“My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.”
“The White House is one of the few places in downtown Washington where you can get something to eat after 11 o'clock at night.”
“This gardener will be out in the very early morning and from late afternoon, attentive to small changes in the quality of light and the atmosphere, as well as to every nuance of the season, which combine to create perfection.”
“I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.”
“The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.”
“Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as meditation can. The mind goes on jumping even in deepest sleep. Just those few moments in meditation your brain has almost stopped. ... You forget the body. ... You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.”
“In the morning I stand up, scratch a little bit, then I light a candle and I meditate. Every morning. I've been meditating for maybe 20 years. I meditate so I can make choices; so I'm not a sheep all the time. So I can see better than what everyone else is doing.”
“In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.”
“Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.”