“The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.”
Calm feeling
Calm Quotes — page 94 of 276
“All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.”
“I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.”
“What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.”
“To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don't know anything finer than that.”
“I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.”
“In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.”
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold them at a distance for a time. But where can one find the solitude necessary to vigor, the deep breath in which the mind collects itself and courage gauges its strength? There remain big cities.”
“Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.”
“The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm.”
“The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.”
“In the cold morning the rested street stands up To greet the clerk who saunters down the world.”
“This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.”
“In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.”
“Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.”
“Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.”
“Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all.”
“The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.”
“Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.”
“It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.”