“It's like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all's well. You get off it and the next thing you know you're lost if you're not lucky.”
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Calm Quotes — page 239 of 276
“See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle.”
“There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.”
“I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.”
“There should be no telephone in your writing room, certainly no TV or videogames for you to fool around with. If there’s a window, draw the curtains or pull down the shades unless it looks out at a blank wall.”
“I like to always stop with a couple of pages that I haven't - that are just raw copy, where I haven't touched it, I haven't tried to revise it, I haven't tried to polish it. It's like having a little bit of a runway. The next day when you sit down, you have the comfort of saying, well, I have got a little bit here, used to be in the typewriter. Now it's in the magic box, the computer.”
“The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing.”
“To breathe properly is to live properly.”
“Try and get out into nature for even 30 min. each day to clear your head + think + walk + breathe. Great daily practice.”
“There are times when life's just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, "Well, what are you really like?"”
“The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream.”
“I'd rather work with guys that have time to live with you, and let it gel.”
“As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.”
“Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.”
“I'm also all about comfort. Just hanging out and wearing jeans or sweats.”
“Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity...In a state of flow, you're neither bored nor anxious, and you don't question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing.”
“It's not that there is no small talk...It's that it comes not at the beginning of conversations but at the end...Sensitive people...'enjoy small talk only after they've gone deep' says Strickland. 'When sensitive people are in environments that nurture their authenticity, they laugh and chitchat just as much as anyone else.”
“I like going into a school matinee. I like to be behind the stage because there's a spy-hole and what you see is the best moment in all theatre.”
“By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.”
“The point is to get a good rhythm, to make it mindless, almost as a daydream. To walk like breathing. To make it what the body wants, what the air wants, what time wants.”