“The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter”
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Calm Quotes — page 163 of 276
“But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I do not like their cities and forts, with their morning and evening guns, and sails flapping in one's eye. I want a whole continent to breathe in, and a good deal of solitude and silence, such as all Wall Street cannot buy,--nor Broadway with its wooden pavement. I must live along the beach, on the southern shore, which looks directly out to sea,--and see what that great parade of water means, that dashes and roars, and has not yet wet me, as long as I have lived.”
“The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears to hear it.”
“Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,--as if the short spring days were an eternity.”
“I bring a poofy gray down jacket with me wherever I go. It's meant for winter, but I use it most in the summer, when everyone cranks up the air-conditioning.”
“...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself a satisfaction to sense.”
“We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.”
“Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with anothers way of life-so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands Off.”
“The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.”
“In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by”
“The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night.”
“Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.”
“The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.”
“The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.”
“Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.”
“Festina lente. Make haste slowly.”
“I do my best to limit the amount of compromise in my life so I have more time to do what I want. Not hanging out with many people really helps. I am not a people person and I spend a great deal of time on my own and in this environment, I get a lot done.”
“It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.”
“And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters”
“On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment.”