“We loiter in winter while it is already spring.”
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Calm Quotes — page 181 of 276
“If I wished to see a mountain or other scenery under the most favorable auspices, I would go to it in foul weather, so as to be there when it cleared up; we are then in the most suitable mood, and nature is most fresh and inspiring. There is no serenity so fair as that which is just established in a tearful eye.”
“Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry,-determine to make a day of it.”
“Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.”
“He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.”
“In an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, in its own perfect time.”
“I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.”
“Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life--keep moving.”
“Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.”
“There rises the moon, broad and tranquil, through the branches of a walnut tree on a hill opposite. I apostrophize it in the words of Faust; "O gentle moon, that lookest for the last time upon my agonies!" --or something to that effect.”
“The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!”
“One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.”
“Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.”
“The universe implodes. No matter.”
“I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.”
“The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.”
“Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.”
“As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares.”
“I'm dead sober. This is just me.”
“I need to just find my own peace.”