“Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense.”
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Calm Quotes — page 80 of 276
“And we came forth to contemplate the stars.”
“Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.”
“A defensive investor can always prosper by looking patiently and calmly through the wreckage of a bear market.”
“When you begin to meditate on a regular basis, you will start to notice that thoughts and feelings that may have been building up inside of you are gently released and you reach the quiet place that was always there, waiting for you- the place of pure awareness. It is there that you will experience peace, healing, and true rejuvenation.”
“Experiencing the silence of meditation doesn't have to be complicated. You can lie on the floor with arms and legs outspread, paying attention to the sensations in your body. You can observe the outflow and inflow of your breath. You can also go to a park and let the impressions of nature calm your brain.”
“I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.”
“I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?”
“Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.”
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
“If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.”
“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.”
“No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise.”
“But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?”
“My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.”
“True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.”
“But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself?”
“In moments of considerable strain, I tend to take to bread-and-butter pudding. There is something about the blandness of soggy bread, the crispness of the golden outer crust and the unadulterated pleasure of a lightly set custard that makes the world seem a better place to live.”
“Being comfortable is over-rated.”
“The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.”