“If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.”
Calm feeling
Calm Quotes — page 53 of 276
“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
“Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.”
“I have no time to be in a hurry.”
“Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.”
“If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.”
“Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?”
“He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such as only really intellectual men have, who have no axe to grind, who never wish to shine, or to talk others down, or to appear always in the right.”
“A Woman in Harmony with her Spirit is like a river flowing.”
“Fighting is all about calmness and relaxation. My appearance was all an illusion. My appearance is of a mad man, but I'm really calm and collected. Even though I'm fighting, I'm calm and relaxed as possible, despite my displays, because once you get excited, you can't fight at the highest level of your ability.”
“The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.”
“Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good.”
“I'm treating every day as a special one and trying to live in the moment.”
“At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.”
“Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.”
“Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'”
“Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.”
“Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, insuring that wide free open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.”
“Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.”
“If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once, and our whole policy for the first 150 years was, we were neutral.”