Quotes About Calmness

And then there's this strange vast serenity that seems to come from the fact that he doesn't feel he has to prove anything.

I repeat, 'I am strong, able and calm.

Drink a cup of herbal tea, if you like. Listen to some soft classical music and prepare yourself to drift

unyielding when it comes to the protection of your inner peace.

Rockefeller did not show any anxiety about the absence of security

While here, Grant goes out to the very front, is under fire for hours together, and at the same time he receives despatches from Sherman a thousand miles away, and directs the movements of his army at Atlanta, of another in Louisiana, of the forces at Mobile; and smokes his cigar in calm and quiet all the while," he informed Edwin Booth.

You need infinite patience. No use fretting or worrying. You just wait. Doing nothing, thinking nothing, burning no energy. Then you burst into action. After an hour, five hours, a day, a week. Waiting is a skill like anything else.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.

but he had seldom been used with patience or forbearance. He prided himself on his self-control. It had been whipped into him by the mockery of his fellows. Then they called him cynical and callous. He had acquired calmness of demeanour and under most circumstances an unruffled exterior, so that now he could not show his feelings.

Concluding Hints Do not make haste to begin—haste shows lack of control. Do not apologize. It ought not to be necessary; and if it is, it will not help. Go straight ahead. Take a deep breath, relax, and begin in a quiet conversational tone as though you were speaking to one large friend.

breathe slowly, deeply. Let your limbs go limp. Relax your neck. Relax your shoulders. Relax your arms: first the fingers, then the wrists, then the lower arms, and then the upper. Relax your feet. Relax your legs.

Radiate an energy of serenity and peace so that you have an uplifting effect on those you come into contact with.

We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.

Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still.

Breathe a word of prayer, not anger.

Finding the calmness or serenity in oneself effectively diffuses the judgments of others

Without the least sense of rush or strain you've been working as fast as one of those extraordinary calculating boys, who turn up from time to time.

How sorry she felt for white people, who couldn't do any of this, and who were always dashing around and worrying themselves over things that were going to happen anyway. What use was it having all that money if you could never sit still or just watch your cattle eating grass? None, in her view; none at all, and yet they did not know it. Every so often you met a white person

I won't think about it now, there's nothing I can do about any of those things.

Haste is a poor counselor

The word translated sober here is nepho, and it means to "be self-possessed under all circumstances.