Quotes About Calmness

This day have I got me out of all trouble, or rather have cast out all trouble, for it was not from without, but within, in my own imagination.

Habite en ti la serenidad, la ausencia de necesidad de ayuda externa y de la tranquilidad que procuran otros. Conviene, por consiguiente, mantenerse recto, no enderezado.

Be like a promontory against which the waves are always breaking. It stands fast, and stills the waters that rage around it.

He never exhibited rudeness, lost control of himself, or turned violent. No one ever saw him sweat. Everything was to be approached logically and with due consideration, in a calm and orderly fashion but decisively, and with no loose ends.

Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly; but it stands fast and around it the seething of the waters sinks to rest. Ah, unlucky am I, that this has befallen me! No, but rather, lucky am I, that though this has befallen me, yet am I still unhurt, neither crushed by the present nor dreading the future.

Budi poput krševite obale o koju se neprestance lome valovi. Ona stoji postojano, a oko nje uzavrele vode polako se smiruju.

They were the eyes of a happy woman, a woman around whom storms might blow without ever ruffling the serene core of her being.

The truly thankful person is a truly peaceful person.

There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.

Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.

Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.

Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please

I saw a button pin once that said: "I'm not tense. I'm just very, very alert.

I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.

Equanimity can be hard to talk about.

It must have been the sense of having done his whole duty, and expended upon the cause every energy of his being, which enabled him to meet the approaching catastrophe with a calmness which seemed to those around him almost sublime.

The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.

The happiest life is to be without thought

Along the cool sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenour of their way.

I like a calm life where nobody bothers me.

What counts is not how scared you are or how brave you claim to be or even how calm you are. All that matters is what you do.

A strange calmness had overcome her with her realization that she no longer cared. A tension inside her head had been released, an enigmatic, ticking mechanism had ceased to operate, and now she floated in the pool of circumstances that had drowned her desires, was held fast in it, like scum on the surface of a pond.