“Let gentleness my strong enforcement be.”
Calm feeling
Calm Quotes — page 188 of 276
“Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait, His day's hot task hath ended in the west: The owl, night's herald, shrieks-'tis very late; The sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest; And coal-black clouds, that shadow heaven's light, Do summon us to part, and bid good night.”
“In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure, The heart luxuriates with indifferent things, Wasting its kindliness on stocks and stones, And on the vacant air.”
“I am too busy. I have not time for worry.”
“Very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be.”
“When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element”
“I've always found the rain very calming.”
“I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.”
“Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.”
“The world sits quiet, as if sighing and taking a long inhale after what seemed like forever with mankind and the noise pollution.”
“Walking through a crowd, the village is aglow. Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats, under coats. Everybody here wanted something more. Searching for a sound we hadn't heard before. And it said, 'Welcome to New York,' It's been waiting for you. It's a new soundtrack, I could dance to this beat forevermore. The lights are so bright, but they never blind me.”
“I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.”
“Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.”
“I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
“The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.”
“So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are psychedelic have to function as sitters for society, because society is going to thrash, and resist, and think it's dying, and be deluded, and regurgitate unconscious material, and so forth and so on. And the role then, I think, for psychedelic people is to try and spread calm.”
“Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient.”
“Patient endurance attends to all things.”
“London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the streets... To walk alone through London is the greatest rest.”
“Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else.”