“A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It is dazed with moonlight, contented with perfume.”
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Calm Quotes — page 65 of 276
“And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.”
“Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.”
“The health of the eye demands a horizon.”
“Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of man: the coyotes wail like dismal ventriloquists, or the silence may be broken by the snorting and stamping of a deer.”
“Silence is more eloquent than words.”
“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.”
“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.”
“True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
“I just live one day at a time.”
“Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental.”
“And let them pass, as they will too soon, With the bean-flowers' boon, And the blackbird's tune, And May, and June!”
“The calm man is not the man who is dull. You must not mistake Sattva for dullness or laziness. The calm man is the one who has control over the mind waves. Activity is the manifestation of inferior strength, calmness, of the superior.”
“Practice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience is the key to all relief.”
“I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.”
“I don't feel like taking pictures with anyone [or] doing anything. I just like chillin'.”
“If we could just trust the moment that we're in and live it in the way that you best can embrace it, it would be much better for all of us.”
“Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but remain calm, humble, and in "perfect equanimity" if you want to continue in this deep state of consciousness.”
“When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten; when the belt fits, the belly is forgotten; when the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten. There is no change in what is inside, no following what is outside, when the adjustment to events is comfortable. One begins with what is comfortable and never experiences what is uncomfortable, when one knows the comfort of forgetting what is comfortable.”
“I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.”