“Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.”
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Calm Quotes — page 42 of 276
“There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness.”
“College is a refuge from hasty judgment.”
“To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.”
“A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger.”
“One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.”
“There is a place where the sidewalk ends, And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind.”
“Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.”
“Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.”
“Silence is essential for deep transformation. It allows the practice of conscious breathing to become deep and effective. Like still water that reflects things as they are, the calming silence helps us to see things more clearly, and therefore, to be in deeper contact with ourselves and those around us.”
“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”
“It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.”
“For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.”
“Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.”
“Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.”
“The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.”
“I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.”
“I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.”
“Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see the reeds and a stone lantern and the brightest of the evening's stars floating on the gloaming mirror of the pond. Then the breeze came again to crack the water's surface, and the picture was flooded.”
“Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.”