“It is the place of renewal and of safety, where for a little while there will be no harm or attack and, while every sense is nourished, the soul rests.”
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Calm Quotes — page 272 of 276
“Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.”
“I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.”
“I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.”
“I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.”
“To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's what football is to some guys.”
“I don't like to travel. I go out. When you do stand up, you travel a lot. Just working out. I don't really enjoy it. I like New York. There's nothing really like New York. Everything just becomes a worse version of New York.”
“I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.”
“There is nothing better than getting something in front of an audience in a less stressful setting than previews!”
“My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.”
“I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.”
“Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.”
“A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.”
“Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.”
“We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.”
“To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.”
“To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books; they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences; they always receive me with the same kindness.”
“While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.”
“Books are a languid pleasure.”
“It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.”