“Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.”
Calm feeling
Calm Quotes — page 61 of 276
“I close my eyes, and think of water.”
“Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.”
“Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
“Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.”
“He was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention with a quiet heart, with a waiting, opened soul, without passion, without a wish, without judgement, without an opinion.”
“Home is the place you can go when you're whipped.”
“If circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself.”
“I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence. I need it against the witless bellowing of the barracks yard and the witty chatter of the yes-men. I want to hear the rustling of the organ, this deluge of ethereal notes. I need it against the shrill farce of marches.”
“The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.”
“Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.”
“I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.”
“Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in the hub of the wheel - not out at the edges where all the wild whirling takes place, where you can get frayed and crazy. The hub of calmness - that's your heart. That's where God lives within you. So stop looking for answers in the world. Just keep coming back to that center and you'll always find peace.”
“You gotta chill and relax, and release, meditate, and breathe and walk, and ski and surf, and bask and sunbathe and relax and sing and love and laugh and nurture yourself, and eat good stuff. And find better and better feeling thoughts and practice them until they become the norm. And then everything that life has caused you to become must manifest into your experience.”
“All you gotta do is chill out... Let go of control and chill out... Let it be, Trust.”
“When you have a valid opinion around, it takes a lot of the pressure off.”
“The moonlight lay upon the hills like snow.”
“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
“Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!”
“I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.”