“But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.”
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Calm Quotes — page 229 of 276
“I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.”
“A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.”
“Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.”
“The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.”
“Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.”
“The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.”
“In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.”
“The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.”
“The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.”
“Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.”
“Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.”
“In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.”
“Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.”
“When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it.”
“Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.”
“Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.”
“Since you know the means of getting better, in the name of God, make use of them. Do not take on anything beyond your strength, do not be anxious, do not take things too much to heart, go gently, do not work too long or too hard.”
“But the blessed Bishop of Geneva taught his nuns another kind of prayer, which even the sick can make: to remain peacefully in the presence of God, manifesting our needs to Him with no other mental effort, like a poor person who uncovers his sores and by this means is more effective in inciting passers-by to do him some good than if he wore himself out trying to convince them of his need.”
“I see that you are not sure of what you should do. You must remain steadfast, Monsieur. It would be a great wrong for you to leave and an irreparable scandal to the town and the Company. If you were to abandon the house, I do not think people would ever be willing to welcome us back. Fear not; calm will follow the storm, and perhaps soon.”