“A simple life is its own reward.”
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Calm Quotes — page 194 of 276
“Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk 'round a corner and I really feel that this is my place.”
“I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk.”
“And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather aremetaphors.”
“And indeed, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and the lamp is buring?”
“Don't dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be.”
“Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand: and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools.”
“A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter.”
“Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open.”
“In our entrancement with the motorcar, we have forgotten how much more efficient and how much more flexible the footwalker is.”
“Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.”
“The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence”
“Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.”
“It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.”
“With a book he was regardless of time.”
“I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world of torment as to hair-dressing, which at present gives me no trouble beyond washing and brushing, for my long hair is always plaited up out of sight, and my short hair curls well enough to want no papering.”
“Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.”
“Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.”
“Yoga exercises are excellent; the speaker does them every day, for an hour or more; but that is merely physical exercise, to keep the body healthy, and so on.”
“I don't mind what happens.”