“It was as if we were at the heart of a maze. We were overwhelmed by the enormity of the tasks ahead. Mary had given us a bottle of milk and a spoonful of loose tea, and so, unable to decide what to do, we did what all Irish men and women do: we had tea. Suddenly the sun appeared and not for the first or last time we felt it uplifting us and changing everything. It seemed like a holiday.”
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Calm Quotes — page 74 of 276
“When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.”
“Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.”
“Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.”
“One's happiness is very largely a question of state of mind rather than the world you are looking at.”
“A silence reigns upon the air, Upon the pansies by the shore, Upon the violets, pale and fair, Upon the willow, bending o'er; The reeds and lilies silent grow, The dark green waters silent sleep, Save when the summer breezes blow, Or silvery minnows leap.”
“One can say everything best over a meal.”
“Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.”
“It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.”
“The less I was of who I was, the better I felt.”
“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.”
“Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.”
“We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.”
“You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.”
“One day at a time is all we do. One day at a time is good for you”
“Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.”
“Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.”
“I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality.”
“A sky full of silent suns.”
“The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.”