“I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.”
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Calm Quotes — page 244 of 276
“I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days.”
“A satyagrahi, whilst he is ever ready to fight, must be equally eager for peace.”
“The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.”
“The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.”
“Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.”
“Watches may disagree, but let us not.”
“The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.”
“If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.”
“Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.”
“There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music.”
“By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.”
“Having a child is the polar opposite experience of the awards season experience. The awards-season experience requires you to be out in the community, in the heart of the community, at the nucleus of the film community in a really committed way for about a six-month period of time. Having a child requires you to nest, to be in your home, and to create and make your home and environment that is one that is potentially very welcoming and nurturing for a child.”
“In the spring rain, the pond and the river become one. Into every life some rain must fall. Usually when your car windows are down. It raineth on the Just and the Unjust Alike, But the Unjust stealeth the Just's umbrella Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
“The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.”
“Be content with an ordinary life.”
“Water does not force its way.”
“The best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them.”
“Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?”
“The one who is filled by virtue is like a newborn baby.”