“In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.”
Calm feeling
Calm Quotes — page 270 of 276
“What is more gentle than a wind is summer?”
“No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.”
“O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush'd and smooth!”
“And then I was asleep. That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep, that sleep that is not particularly restful but difficult to wake up from all the same.”
“My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did.”
“It's fine," I repeated. And whatever. It was fine. It had to be.”
“The light filtered throught the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow.”
“I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.”
“She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.”
“We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus.”
“We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.”
“But it was only hot outside, and generally I only walked outside between one air-conditioned place to another.”
“It's bad for your brain not to unplug.”
“I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.”
“Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't.”
“Have patience, heart.”
“Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death”
“There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.”
“Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays Smote the surrounding fields.”