“My diary seems to keep me whole.”
Calm feeling
Calm Quotes — page 217 of 276
“The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.”
“And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more sensitized, live a more richly perfumed and intoxication life, instead of transmuting into thoughts, words, into exquisite abstractions, mathematics of emotion in place of violent impact, the volcanic eruptions of fever, lust and delight.”
“Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known as phototherapy, may help. It uses light boxes emitting full-spectrum light to simulate sunlight.”
“I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.”
“My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is not happiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice.”
“Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.”
“As soon as I walk through the door and see my family and the dogs, I feel relaxed.”
“The Palace is a good theater, you can see from everywhere.”
“I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket.”
“Free countries are great, because you can actually sit in somebody else's space for a while and pretend you're a part of it. You can sit in the Plaza Hotel and you don't even have to live there. You can just sit and watch the people go by.”
“If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.”
“The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing.”
“My favorite thing about L.A. is the sunny breezes that mimic the mindset of the energy in the people.”
“I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.”
“Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.”
“I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth spoken so often, than, say, at the DMV, or home alone, orbiting my own mind. And it's good to be out where others can see you, so you can't be your ghastly spoiled self. It forces you to act slightly more elegantly, and this improves your thoughts, and thereby the world.”
“Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.”
“I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.”
“I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.”