“On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.”
Calm feeling
Calm Quotes — page 67 of 276
“I don't have anything to prove anymore. I can relax.”
“STOP AND LOOK out the window and see how beautiful the world is. It is there-enjoy it. Go out tonight and look up at the stars. They are the wonders of nature”
“If your mental attitude is positive, even when threats abound, you won’t lose your inner peace. On the other hand, if your mind is negative, marked by fear, suspicion and feelings of helplessness, even among your best friends, in a pleasant atmosphere and comfortable surroundings, you won’t be happy.”
“As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.”
“With right attitude, life is very simple and very easy.”
“The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn, Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and the flee Beyond his blue dwelling, As fawns flee the leopard.”
“Follow effective action with quiet reflection.”
“Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.”
“In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.”
“I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.”
“So you have to take the good with the bad.”
“The yellow star? Oh well, what of it? You dont die of it.”
“-….when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting.”
“I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers”
“Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.”
“Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti. Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.”
“Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.”
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.”
“Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another.”