“By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon , for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like.”
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Calm Quotes — page 265 of 276
“she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.”
“I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.”
“She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely, if there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must understand each other ere long. We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment’s inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness.” And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind.”
“The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.”
“She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.”
“I walk: I prefer walking.”
“The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.”
“Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.”
“I'll say life is simpler.”
“Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.”
“I clung to nothing, in a way I was calm. But it was a horrible calm—because of my body; my body, I saw with its eyes, I heard with its ears, but it was no longer me; it sweated and trembled by itself and I didn’t recognize it any more.”
“My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep.”
“Bones glanced behind me, with just the barest inclination of his head. I walked away from him, muttering, "Don't worry, you don't need to have Mencheres break out the invisible straitjacket again. I haven't gone crazy. I just didn't understand until now." He still looked like he was debating having Mencheres lay the power whammy on me, so I sat down by Kira in a very deliberate manner, folding my hands in my lap. There. Didn't I look calm and sane?”
“I'm in the moment. I'm always in the moment of life.”
“It's important to be alive in those moment, especially when you're doing something you love to do.”
“You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard.”
“Enlightenment is being able to go to your own home and feel comfortable.”
“It's something I always tell myself: 'You need to calm the f--k down. You don't want to constantly be a GIF.”
“I run into grounded people all the time. Given, most of them are behind the camera. But I definitely by no means think I'm the only one.”