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Quotes About Calms

The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existence of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.
~ Krista Tippett
I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.
~ Bernard Moitessier
a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.
~ Aidan Chambers
He's calling us to the Great Exchange--the one where we ccan never lose. As we trade the "many things" that make us anxious, He gives us the "one thing" that calms our hearts. Himself.
~ Joanna Weaver
With these [Love, Patience, Faith] celestial Wisdom calms the mind,And makes the happiness she does not find.
~ Samuel Johnson
Kindness is the antidote to everything. Just as water soothes fire, kindness calms how we burn each other from time to time. And under all the ways we burn and hurt, there's the soft and lasting presence we were born with, waiting to blossom in the midst of any trouble.
~ Mark Nepo
I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.
~ Bernard Moitessier
The days go by, never monotonous. Even when they appear exactly alike they are never quite the same. That is what gives life at sea its special dimension, made up of contemplation and very simple contrasts. Sea, winds, calms, sun clouds, porpoises. Peace, and the joy of being alive in harmony.
~ Bernard Moitessier
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
~ John Russell
The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You could at least complain," I say. "I adore complaining. It calms the nerves.
~ Franny Billingsley
I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think I'd do history or English literature... I've had enough of journos.
~ Brooke Fraser
The summer in youcalms the winter in me.
~ Saiber, The Summer in You
We seamen, when there's naught to do In calms, the straw for hats we plait, Or one another we tattoo With marks we copy from a mate, Which he has from his elders ta'en, And those from prior ones again; And few, if any, think or reck But so with pains their skin to deck. This crucifixion, though, by some, A charm is held 'gainst watery doom.
~ Herman Melville, Clarel
Pain takes place in the mind, and what calms the mind will enhance my ability to cope with pain.
~ Unknown