“Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.”
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Calm Quotes — page 88 of 276
“I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.”
“Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.”
“See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.”
“External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.”
“When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.”
“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.”
“But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt and duty towards it, because I have walked on the earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures, not made to please a certain tendency in art, but to express a sincere human feeling. So this work is the aim-and through concentration upon that one idea, everything one does is simplified. Now the work goes slowly-a reason the more to lose no time.”
“[I listen to] "Uptown Funk", Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress - I listen to that.”
“I like to have space to spread my mind out in.”
“I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.”
“So let the mind flow like water. Face life with a calm and quiet mind and everything in life will be calm and quiet.”
“Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.”
“All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.”
“Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.”
“The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.”
“There's a different kind of comfort that comes from knowing that you are putting your best foot forward. It's called psychological comfort. Look at a picture of the Coney Island boardwalk in 1925. Men were in full-on three-piece suits, hats. They may have only had one suit. But they pressed it. They made it look as good as possible.”
“My fridge is really just vegan: coconut water, Gatorade (my favorite!), cucumbers, mint, kale, vegetables, ginger, and wheat grass.”
“My standpoint is armed neutrality.”
“As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.”