“I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.”
Calm feeling
Calm Quotes — page 55 of 276
“The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.”
“When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.”
“Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.”
“Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
“I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.”
“As I get older, I'm more relaxed and less concerned with what people think of me”
“I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.”
“You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.”
“Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle.”
“The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.”
“When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain.”
“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.”
“Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.”
“Night is the other half of life, and the better half.”
“In heaven it is always autumn.”
“When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty. This is something that is coming up in our own consciousness now...recognizi ng that by violating the environment in which we are living, we are really cutting off the energy and source of our own living. And it’s this sense of accord, so that living properly in relation to what has to be done in this world one fosters the vitality of the environment.”
“One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.”
“But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.”
“Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.”