“Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe.”
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Calm Quotes — page 173 of 276
“It would have been better to come back at the same hour,” said the fox. “If, for example, you came at four o’clock in the afternoon, then at three o’clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o’clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am! But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you . . . One must observe the proper rites . . .”
“It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.”
“Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.”
“Even painfully shy and awkward people are not painfully shy or awkward when they are alone. The way to access this natural, comfortable alone-self when you are with others is by choosing to forbid yourself to wonder what "they" are thinking. Instead, force yourself to exist in the instant, then take it- and give it- as it comes.”
“I eat steamed sea bass and vegetables, and I have no sugar, and only drink soy milk.”
“I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.”
“The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.”
“At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.”
“A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.”
“Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of business, the all swallowing vortex of the great money whirlpool-who has any, even distant, idea of the profound repose......of silence?”
“There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.”
“Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be different than they are.”
“Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains with their right aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts, thundering in their solitudes; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure; her brought deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence; her skies, kindling waves in the magic of the summer clouds and glorious sunshine;-no, never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery.”
“The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold The pur0ple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.”
“The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene.”
“If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.”
“Set your heart at rest. The fairyland buys not the child of me.”
“The eagle suffers little birds to sing.”
“At once, good night- Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.”