“I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.”
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Calm Quotes — page 166 of 276
“A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.”
“Asleep in lap of legends old.”
“And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.”
“All clean and comfortable I sit down to write.”
“No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.”
“A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.”
“Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.”
“I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred thousand dollars there and immediately buys a yacht, begins to race fast horses, and becomes a sport generally. My tastes lie in a different direction. When business hours are over I go home and spend the remainder of the day with my wife, my children, and books of my library. Every man has natural inclinations of his own. Mine are domestic. They are not calculated to make me particularly popular in Wall Street, and I cannot help that.”
“Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death.”
“The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest.”
“Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.”
“I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.”
“Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.”
“The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.”
“On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening”
“Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance.”
“Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December.”
“The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.”
“Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.”