“I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.”
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Calm Quotes — page 54 of 276
“To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.”
“There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.”
“It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.”
“although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.”
“To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”
“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
“Who doesn't want to be comfortable all day long?”
“The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.”
“Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.”
“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.”
“Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.”
“The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.”
“Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.”
“The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.”
“While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.”
“Often the best way to relax is just to go back to work.”
“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”
“It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.”
“Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.”