“If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.”
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Calm Quotes — page 199 of 276
“Attention is the vital thing and there is no tension in attention. It just happens to be a similar word. It's not concentration or straining. Attention has the openness of a young child not yet dominated by the conceptual mind.”
“I don't make cocktails with whisky. I'll always drink it with a little bit of water. I love Negronis early on, but for me drinking whisky is something I do at the end of an evening. It's a midnight-to-3-a.m. drink for me.”
“Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.”
“Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.”
“I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are.”
“Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.”
“When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.”
“At the office where the paper grows, she takes a break, drinks another coffee, and she finds it hard to stay awake. It's just another day.”
“I make films and do the publicity and interviews, but then I want to get away from it all and be on my own.”
“Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps...this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self.”
“I don't make plans. I live my life on a daily basis.”
“Lie down on the ground and feel the planet's heart beating.”
“Empty your mind, stop thinking about anything, simply be.”
“Do not struggle against your thoughts; they are stronger than you are. If you want to be free of them, accept them.”
“I don't try to control my days.”
“It's the oasis," said the camel driver. "Well, why don't we go there right now?" the boy asked. "Because we have to sleep.”
“Seek to live,remembrance is for the old.”
“I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.”
“I am not saying that I am different, but I don't have emotional pain. I may be angry and I may be peaceful, but no emotional pain.”