“The very important thing you should have is patience.”
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Calm Quotes — page 66 of 276
“Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.”
“To awaken, sit calmly, letting each breath clear your mind and open your heart.”
“Offend in neither word nor deed. Eat with moderation. Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Master yourself according to the law. This is the simple teaching of the awakened.”
“Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind well controlled achieves peace and happiness.”
“In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.”
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.”
“You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.”
“The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.”
“The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings.”
“The landscapist lives in silence.”
“Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.”
“Simplify, simplify, simplify.”
“It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.”
“I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.”
“There was no publicity. You had to like it. There was no pressure, just great competition. The attitude of the coaches and players was exceptional.”
“Lights are glowing in the palm trees.”
“Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.”
“One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.”
“Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.”