“She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.”
Calm feeling
Calm Quotes — page 170 of 276
“I'm trying to just accept things, accept the beauty of things and the joy and positivity of things as they are in the moment and accept when it's not that way as well. Because, of course, none of it lasts forever. It's all going to change very rapidly. But that doesn't have to be a bad thing. It doesn't have to be panic-inducing. It can be just the way life is.”
“I literally have no idea what's to come. I try to just stay in the moment.”
“We all need somewhere where we feel safe”
“When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.”
“Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.”
“A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.”
“The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.”
“It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.”
“There is safety in numbers.”
“Actually, when I'm not filming a movie, my beauty approach is really natural - I prefer a bare face that looks really healthy and dewy.”
“The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.”
“If I feel really authentically in my body, then everything seems to click. But, sometimes I can only get into that, if the atmosphere is already conducive to that with the sound and all that stuff. There are moments where, as a performer, you're on stage and you feel like you're exactly where you're meant to be in the universe. It's a rare and beautiful thing when it happens.”
“A living gale is better than a dead calm.”
“The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.”
“They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing.”
“Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.”
“A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.”
“Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.”
“The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.”