“In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.”
Calm feeling
Calm Quotes — page 164 of 276
“On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.”
“There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.”
“Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”
“For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.”
“We are all alike, on the inside.”
“Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.”
“It also signals to me, when I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes.”
“Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.”
“The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.”
“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.”
“She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.”
“I considered calmly that I was born to write.”
“We want Old Town Square to be a focal point for fun in Bandera, a place where locals can hold their special events and meetings, or just visit us for a relaxing dinner with friends on the patio. Likewise, tourists can use Old Town Square as a home base during their visit to Bandera. They can stay overnight and dine with us, but also explore all that Bandera has to offer. This was the place to come to. We want to make it that kind of place again.”
“It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.”
“You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.”
“I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I don't care what it is.”
“Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings”
“Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.”
“Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]”