Quotes About Calmness

Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.

and there was still a lot of soft snow in the bush. We

THIS IS THE ACCOUNT of when all is still silent and placid. All is silent and calm. Hushed and empty is the womb of the sky. THESE, then, are the first words, the first speech. There is not yet one person, one animal, bird, fish, crab, tree, rock, hollow, canyon, meadow, or forest. All alone the sky exists. The face of the earth has not yet appeared.

Kings needs cool tempers.

Act as if everything is going exactly according to your plans. As if you are the most confident person in the world. As if you never had a doubt in your life. It works for me.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee.

The ocean makes you feel like the world is greeting you with a soft, wet, welcoming indifference. It's never going to argue back, no matter how loud you yell.

On all the peaks lies peace.

Woe to him who could look on and say: The fool! If she had waited, if she had let time do its work, her despair would surely have subsided, another man would have turned up to comfort her.— That's just like saying: The fool, dying of fever! If he had waited until his strength returned, his circulation improved, the tumult of his blood calmed down, everything would have turned out well and he would still be alive today!

Über allen Gipfeln Ist Ruh, In allen Wipfeln Spürest du Kaum einen Hauch; Die Vögelein schweigen in Walde. Warte nur, balde Ruhest du auch.

The big turn in the late 90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. I was fairly sure I was going to be an actor for the rest of my life, which I think calmed me down.

Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off.

If you get upset when the toast burns, what are you going to do when your house burns down?

A racing mind that reacts sensitively to little things indicates thinking that has lost its spiritual strength. Meditation restores that power.

SERENITY "Are there ways for gauging one's spiritual strength?" "Many." "Give us one." "Find out how often you become disturbed in the course of a single day.

Sometimes the eye of a hurricane is the safest place to be.

The strange thing was that he was more relaxed, now, after being told the news. It was as if he had always been expecting it and was merely grateful that, at last, it had been delivered.

If I make a bogey or three putt I'm on fire inside. But it's not like you're going to play any better slamming your club or getting angry. So you might as well just keep it in. People say I'm pretty calm, but I do make mistakes and I do get angry, but I try and not show it.

I have never been ambitious and have always gone with the flow.

I don't go flying into tackles and running around 100 mph. That's just not me.

I've been through WTO riots in Seattle, massive earthquakes, major floods... forest fires. I just try to be as even-keeled and calm as possible.