“There is no solitude in nature.”
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Calm Quotes — page 264 of 276
“Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.”
“The wind may blow and then cease, and the sea shall swell and then weary, but the heart of life is a sphere quiet and serene, and the star that shines therein is fixed for evermore.”
“I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.”
“I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.”
“To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.”
“'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.”
“In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.”
“The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm.”
“I never go out to be photographed, never. I go to events because they're fun.”
“I love yoga. I don't do it as much as I'd like to, but I feel wonderful when I do.”
“I like to be able to get up and go and buy a pint of milk without bumping into 20 people I know.”
“Winter in Peking is insurpassable, unless indeed it is surpassed by the other seasons in that blessed city. For Peking is a city clearly marked by the seasons, each perfect in its own way and each different from the others.”
“The gentle sound of her words became the shushing of my blood in my head, and I listened, hovering on the edge of consciousness, bathed in the oblivion of whatever drug they had given me.”
“The car picked up speed, and the sound seemed to lull me.I could relax, I thought as I felt the tingling of circulation in my limbs. I was in Trent’s car, wrapped in a blanket, and held in his arms. He wouldn’t let anything hurt me. He wasn’t singing, though,I mused.Shouldn’t he be singing?”
“I sat for a moment, figuring things out, then decided to stay there. If I was on the floor, I couldn't fall down.”
“I could stay here forever." "But you won't." "Maybe I will.”
“Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present”
“Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?”
“She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation”