“Tell me, how do you cope so calmly With crazy youth's arrogant way? Indeed, youth would be insufferable, Had I myself not also been insufferable.”
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Calm Quotes — page 267 of 276
“Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky. [Ger., Es ist dafur gesorgt, dass die Baume nicht in den Himmel wachsen.]”
“No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.”
“I always feel at home where the sugar maple grows.... glorious in autumn, a fountain of coolness in summer, sugar in its veins, gold in its foliage, warmth in its fibers, and health in it the year round.”
“All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. At night I hear more distinctly the steady roar of the North Mountain. In summer it is a sort of complacent purr, as the breezes stroke down its sides; but in winter always the same low, sullen growl.”
“Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour of the day. And as the hermit's evening hymn goes up from the deep solitude below me, I experience that serene exaltation of sentiment of which music, literature, and religion are but the faint types and symbols.”
“You can feel an emotion; just don't think that it's so important.”
“Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.”
“But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep.”
“There is something that happens when we leave the land and enter the ocean. It's unexpected, the environment feels strangely welcoming. The ocean almost feels like... home.”
“I'm just reveling in the glory of not having to hear the neediness and impotence of my own voice.”
“The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic”
“I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.”
“The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.”
“Nothing to be gained by worrying between now and then.”
“Easy comfort isn't comforting”
“It was kind of a beautiful day, finally real summer in Indianapolis, warm and humid - the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.”
“Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.”
“You don't have to be some sort of freak to meditate”
“Please don’t spoil my day; I’m miles away and, after all, I’m only sleeping.”