“I’ve heard it said that every day you need half an hour of quiet time for yourself, or your Self, unless you’re incredibly busy and stressed, in which case you need an hour. I promise you, it is there. Fight tooth and nail to find time, to make it. It is our true wealth, this moment, this hour, this day.”
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Calm Quotes — page 25 of 276
“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”
“He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.”
“God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.”
“You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour. If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up & accomplishments disappear. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
“He who never hurries is always on time.”
“Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.”
“Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.”
“This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, 'Be more silent.' Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.”
“Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.”
“Solitude is independence.”
“By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.”
“A good night's sleep is always the best way to wake up and go to work.”
“Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”
“I had no idea, but I realized that probably thirty to forty percent of my brainpower was taken up with the questions that I couldn't answer- because I had no direction. When I got clear on exactly where I wanted to go, and set the goals to get there, my mind calmed down.”
“I like down-to-earth people.”
“The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.”
“Relax and take notes while I take tokes of the marijuana smoke”
“The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.”
“Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.”