“Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.”
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Calm Quotes — page 97 of 276
“How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water To be so still that way. ~ "Sea Calm”
“The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and her has nothing left to hold on to: no illusions in his mind, no resistances in his body. He doesn't think about his actions; they flow from the core of his being. He holds nothing back from life; therefore he is ready for death, as a man is ready for sleep after a good day's work.”
“Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.”
“Those who stay where they are will endure.”
“I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.”
“Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.”
“I'm a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant.”
“Every time I get a chance to be out in the ocean, it's like hitting a reset button for me where I just feel alive again, in perfect balance. Music can give me that, as well, but not as easily. The ocean is the way I know how to find it almost daily.”
“So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.”
“My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.”
“The taste of rain -- Why kneel?”
“February dawn -- frost on the path Where I paced all winter.”
“When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.”
“To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.”
“At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.”
“The sky was pure opal now.”
“You will go most safely in the middle.”
“Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.”
“The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.”