“Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.”
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Calm Quotes — page 235 of 276
“The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or very witty or very inventive after the sun goes down.”
“It's bliss when you give up all that stuff that separates you from other human beings. It's hard, but you break down all that stuff.”
“they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked trees which promised cooling; they flung themselves into the shade to taste their lip sweat and contemplate the wildness that had come upon them so suddenly”
“...and I'm standing on the corner of Fifth and Vermouth.”
“Life is much simpler if you don’t notice anything.”
“It's been very quiet, quite frankly. Nothing good, nothing bad.”
“Smile As you find a rhythm Working you, slow mile by mile, Into your proper haunt.”
“Working with my hands keeps me sane.”
“Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura”
“This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will.”
“That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.”
“The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.”
“Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.”
“All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that is the best state of fortune that is neither directly necessitous nor far from it. A mediocrity of fortune, with gentleness of mind, will preserve us from fear or envy; which is a desirable condition; for no man wants power to do mischief.”
“The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.”
“Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.”
“When you travel so much, the best and most relaxing thing is to just sit on the couch and not move.”
“Tennis is my job, but it's not my life.”
“Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.”