Quotes About Calmness

Engaged, yet detached. Active, yet calm. Moving, yet still. This is how it is to be awake in the world.

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He walked with solemn attention, but with calmness, feeling that since the death on Golgotha nothing equally important had happened, and that as the first death had redeemed the whole world, this was to redeem the city.

Prince Andrey glanced at Kutuzov, and unconsciously his eyes were caught by the carefully washed seams of the scar on his temple, where the bullet had gone through his head at Ismail, and the empty eyesocket, not a yard from him. "Yes, he has the right to speak so calmly of the destruction of these men," thought Bolkonsky.

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

he) had his own set of rules: "ride clean and ride fair." Asked by reporters how he managed to keep calm despite the attacks by other cyclists, Marshall answered, "I simply ride away.

Keep still! When trouble is brewing, keep still! When slander is getting on its legs, keep still! When your feelings are hurt, keep still till you recover from your excitement at any rate! Things look different through an unagitated eye.

To lose your temper is only useful once a year.

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.

After some minutes, I went back to the Bible. Again my eyes skimmed the pages. My spirit was calm now. My trembling had ceased. I read passage after passage until I came to Psalm 27:14. I stopped and read it through again. "Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart; wait, I say, on the Lord.

There was fear in those lovely young features, most certainly. No one but a fool would not be frightened at a time like this. But the fear did not possess her, did not dominate her. She remained strong and steadfast...

There is no problem on earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.

Patience and time do more than force and rage.

I'm a sluggish character; I'm a bit slow. For some reason I find it hard to work quickly.

Some people say that in stressful situations I can seem unflappable, and I think that's partly because I'm always kind of internally flapped.

I take things in stride, go with the flow.

I just try to take everything in my stride.

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.

The less you struggle with a problem, the more it's likely to solve itself. The less time you spend frantically running around, the more productive you are likely to be.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.