“They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain chain fluttering and sucked away again in the dark. They saw wild horses racing on the plain, pounding their shadows down the night and- leaving in the moonlight a vaporous dust like the palest stain of their passing.”
Calm feeling
Calm Quotes — page 81 of 276
“Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.”
“In this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking.”
“Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible.”
“Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.”
“A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.”
“Being in Cuba has allowed me to live in a society that is not at war with itself. There is a sense of community. It's a given in Cuba that, if you fall down, the person next to you is going to help you get up.”
“Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.”
“If we didn't spend so much time reacting to things, we would spend less time feeling bothered. We would be able to relax in our lives the way our mind relaxes in meditation.”
“Your higher self is always nudging you toward a resolution of the conflicts that you experience in your life, so that you will have room for serenity and harmony.”
“The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work.”
“Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.”
“The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do notintrude upon each other. The Navajos are not much in the habit of giving or of asking help. Their language is not a communicative one, and they never attempt an interchange of personality in speech. Over their forests there is the same inexorable reserve. Each tree has its exalted power to bear.”
“I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some friend that has the wit.”
“Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.”
“I am joined with no foot land-rakers, no long-staff, sixpenny strikers, none of these mad, mustachio purple-hued maltworms, but with nobility and tranquillity.”
“The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.”
“Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.”
“My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.”
“April, like a child, Writes hieroglyphs on dust with flowers, Wipes them away and forgets.”