“People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.”
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Calm Quotes — page 206 of 276
“It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return.”
“I always separated sports and my personal life.”
“After the sunset on the prairie, there are only the stars”
“Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.”
“I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.”
“Custom reconciles us to everything.”
“It's interesting--the way in which one has to balance life--because you have to know when to let go and when to pull back.... There's always some liminal (as opposed to subliminal) space in between which is harder to inhabit because it never feels as safe as moving from one extreme to another.”
“In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings - where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to. Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information.”
“Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.”
“I have to meditate before I go to bed, always. I have to let the day go and let the eternal in.”
“I wouldn't make it through the day without singing. It is my solace and my meditation and my release. It lets me know how I'm processing things, what I'm processing, if I'm out of touch in some area.”
“Jeans have become this neutral foundational garment. If you want to show you are relaxed, if you want to be relaxed, you wear jeans.”
“Go right on and listen as thou goest.”
“Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.”
“I'm just the same age I've always been.”
“There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work.”
“Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat.”
“If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.”
“Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses.”