“Your skin will get better, you're going to be more attractive, you're more likely to get a job - all the things you want, you will get as a result of being in a more calm place.”
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Calm Quotes — page 243 of 276
“The second you change the way you look at a situation, your stress levels drop.”
“Even if you're just making a list of all the things you have to do, putting your pen to paper gets it out of your head. It puts you in this place of release.”
“Learning presence is a stress buster.”
“Letting yourself off the hook takes the stress away.”
“The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.”
“I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.”
“As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.”
“smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.”
“...their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.”
“The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of children, already gathered like crikets on the grass, rose through the hot twilight.”
“Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?”
“It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day.”
“There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.”
“For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.”
“I'm more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.”
“My very first friend was my stand-in, who's a very dear friend to this day, and she kind of saved my ass. She told me where to stand and where the camera was and where to look. I thought, "If I don't enjoy this, then there's absolutely no point in being an actor."”
“I have a lot of friends who I really feel like I can kick back with and let all pretense go and be very comfortable with.”
“If we took a holiday, took some time to celebrate, just one day out of life, it would be, it would be so nice.”
“In everyday life I am quiet and reserved, not the housekeeper type but cool and relaxed. I don't get up in the morning wearing false eyelashes and I don't wear fancy underwear when I'm cooking popcorn. I'm a nice little ducky.”