“Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering , 'When do I put my arm around her?'”
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Calm Quotes — page 203 of 276
“Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.”
“Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.”
“A grave, on which to rest from singing?”
“All I could say was, "I don't know what to do." I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me in the eye with a calm smile and saying simply, "Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth.”
“Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I'm willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I'm willing to have more boring friends, who are sane.”
“the beauty of doing nothing”
“library is a beautiful old thing”
“Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a break from their husbands in order to visit a spa for the weekend with their girlfriends, I will always be the sort of wife who occasionally needs a break from her husband in order to visit Cambodia. Just for a few days!”
“This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.”
“He is only happy when he can maintain himself - mentally and spiritually - at the intersection between a vertical line and horizontal one, in a state of perfect balance. For this, he needs to know where he is located every moment, both in his relationship to the divine and to his family here on earth. If he loses that balance, he loses his power.”
“in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and i rode that heat to a mld euphoria. I allowed the pain to lose its specific associations and become pure sensation... and that eventually lifted me out of myself and into meditation.”
“I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath.”
“I think there's too much mult-tasking going on. I think people need to quiet down and focus and be still more.”
“I like sitting at outdoor restaurants; it would be nice to go someplace on the street and not worry about somebody taking my picture while I'm about to take a bite of something.”
“Meditation is helping me learn to sit still. Twenty minutes of meditation in the morning is a nice way to start my day. If you can actually sit still and really get to that place of silence, you realize what's important and what's not important. Little things don't usually get to me anymore.”
“I get home at the end of the day and I don't want to talk. All I want to do is lay on the floor and pet my dogs and my cats.”
“Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.”
“I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.”
“How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door.”