“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.”
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Calm Quotes — page 7 of 276
“You can't please everybody. You['d] be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.”
“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.”
“Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.”
“When you can bear your own silence, you are free.”
“Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you.”
“For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts”
“Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.”
“The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing”
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
“She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.”
“If you know the point of balance, You can settle the details. If you can settle the details, You can stop running around. Your mind will become calm. If your mind becomes calm, You can think in front of a tiger. If you can think in front of a tiger, You will surely succeed.”
“All life is temporary Why worry about anything that's only temporary”
“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”
“Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.”
“To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.”
“As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.”
“In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.”
“If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear.”
“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”