“Yoga is a natural thing.”
Calm feeling
Calm Quotes — page 249 of 276
“One asana is strong, then again another is very soft and gentle. So you have this modulation from one asana to another, just as you have from one feeling to another. Then they all, of course, make you lighter, give you space. I feel that space is what I get and receive and like to have - space inside which makes more space for openness outside.”
“I would much rather sit on the floor. Very rarely do I find a table and a chair that is comfortable. But the floor is comfortable.”
“She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with the moonlit sky, conveyed to her excited fancy. As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.”
“I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much--so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.”
“But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called -- called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come.”
“I have never felt brutalized as an actor. Many actors do, some times, but I've never had that experience. If I'm not happy with the balance, I just won't work with that person again.”
“I'm not hard to get along with.”
“I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience.”
“Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.”
“Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine.”
“Forcing people into a situation where they're supposed to adore each other is probably bad. But letting people get on and off the 6 train without stabbing each other, that's good.”
“In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.”
“Nobody will ever hurt her. She’ll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away.”
“I was not scared of anything, when I read my book.”
“The converse held reassuringly true: daylight was safe. Daylight was always safe.”
“And then it went, and time passed properly once more, every second following every other second just like they're meant to.”
“He was alone in the darkness once more, but the darkness became brighter and brighter until it was burning like the sun.”
“After a while it sort of began to rain, which is to say that it was the kind of rain that never comes to a decision about whether it's actually raining or not. Driving in it, you would never have been certain whether or not to turn on your wipers.”
“Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections.”