Quotes About Calmness

Telling people to relax is not as aggressive as shooting them, but it's up there.

In the tremendous breaking forth of a whole people, in which all degrees, tempers and characters are confounded, delivering themselves, by a miracle of exertion, from the destruction mediated against them, is it to be expected that nothing will happen? When men are sore with the sense of oppressions, and menaced with the prospects of new ones, is the calmness of philosophy or the palsy of insensibility to be looked for?

can remember when a dog could go to sleep all day in the middle of Main Street and nothing come along to disturb him.

The only sensible approach is to train ourselves to observe our thoughts without following them. This deprives them of their compulsive energy and is therefore like removing the pot of boiling water from the fire. Eventually calmness and clarity will prevail.

Acting sober is an art," he explained. "The trick is to say very little and be very still.

There's no reason to be angry or impolite.

I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story.

I don't normally get too excited. I just - yeah, I just try and keep it pretty simple, and that's just my personality, really.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviours.

I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.

I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help.

When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: Try to bear lightly what needs must be. Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity.

1. Ask yourself, "What is the worst that can possibly happen?" 2. Prepare to accept it if you have to. 3. Then calmly proceed to improve on the worst.

And I suffered the streaming light to fall upon me, as I gazed into my joy and triumph with a kind of severe nonchalance. But though my face under my three-cornered hat can have expressed only calmness and resolution, I knew in my heart that my thoughts were merely a thin wisp of smoke above the crater of a suppressed volcano.

I can choose peace rather than this.

Quienes están seguros del resultado pueden permitirse esperar, sin ansiedad».

The immediate result of your infinite patience is peace

Well what do you have an urge to do." "Nothing

He was a man whose calmness reflected his confidence that he meant whatever he did-- which is different... from confidence that whatever he did was right.

An inability to remain quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

pour a rainbow from a teapot— drink of happiness and love warmth, calmness, and peace— breathing deep misty dreams

The man who wavers in his faith is upset by the smallest trifles; the man who is steadfast in his faith can look on calmly at the ruin of all his universe.

Use Self-Talk for Managing Your Own Anger • I'll focus on dealing with the problem and stay calm. • This isn't about proving that I am right and they are wrong. I don't have to "win" this, I have to manage it. • I need to keep reminding myself about what the ultimate goal is here. • This isn't a disaster, it's a small problem to be solved.