Quotes About Calmness

I never fought much. It just wasn't my thing. I suppose I could, but I've never got into fights. Not a real one.

I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.

I think my fans would probably be surprised to know I'm not insane - I'm not a crazy person in real life. I'm a pretty low-key dude. I like chilling at home and playing with my dog.

I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

You tell me you didn't sleep well. I say I didn't either. You had a terrible night. "Me too." We're extraordinarily calm and tender with each other as if sensing the other's rickety state of mind. As if we knew what the other was feeling. We don't, of course. We never do. No matter. It's the tenderness I care about. That's the gift this morning that moves and holds me. Same as every morning.

The minutes went by on tiptoe, with their fingers to their lips.

revenge is a dish best served cold. This is a mistake; you must never lose the heat of rage that drives you to revenge.

The wise man strives for awareness. What will happen will happen, and worry will not serve, but anticipation might provide survival.

we need to break the habit of overreacting because of our speedy assumption and judgments

I am certain that a quiet mind is the foundation of inner peace. And inner peace translates into outer peace.

speaking, as your level of understanding rises, you will have the experience of deeper feelings such as gratitude, calmness, peace, hope, and joy.

The best captain does not plunge headlong Nor is the best soldier a fellow hot to fight. The greatest victor wins without the battle....

Another day where nothing has happened, he thought. That was a good thing, he reminded himself. What was the Chinese curse? May you live in interesting times.

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.

There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity.

A brave and passionate man will kill or be killed. A brave and calm man will always preserve life. Of these two which is good and which is harmful?

A superior man is one who is free from fear and anxieties

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

Few men can afford to be angry.

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?

I'm a patient man. And when I say I'm a patient man, I mean I'm a patient man.