“Being on the road and doing events is like getting kids ready for school for most families.”
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Calm Quotes — page 171 of 276
“I've always had my guard. I have my cook and my guard. I want to eat, and I want to live.”
“A quiet mind is more important than a positive mind.”
“We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.”
“Just listen to your body, eat in silence and see what feels good and you will spontaneously choose the foods that are beneficial to you.”
“Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud.”
“But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.”
“Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety.”
“To be contented—that’s for the cows.”
“I'm comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it's stretched. Ha ha.”
“I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.”
“The moon shone like herrings in the water.”
“Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.”
“Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes.”
“Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.”
“You are human and fallible.”
“If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.”
“Misery generates hate.”
“Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly withdrawn, and the sound of what consoles must be silenced.”
“Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.”