Quotes About Calmness

W-what was that?" Rather than responding, he lifted a brow, schooling his features into a calmness that hid the violent need still coursing through his body. "I-I mean I know what it was," she went on in a breathless voice that made shivers run down his spine. "But why? Why did you k-kiss me?" She looked utterly and completely bewildered. "Because, my sweet," he drawled in a smooth tone, "you looked as if you needed to be.

she had this look of calmness, of concentration, the look, I think, of all women who for the first time are with child and find that the world around them has become relatively unimportant.

the predominating characteristic of the Chinese was stoicism

It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

I had never heard her sound so calm, so resigned to her fate. She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on.

A warrior of the Light is never in a hurry. Time works in his favor; he learns to master his impatience and avoids acting without thinking.

Why exactly do you go to yoga classes? You're such a calm, well-balanced person, and a woman who knows what she wants. Aren't you wasting your time?" My heart starts beating again. I don't answer. I simply smile and stroke his face.

Love is patience. That is how Love normally behaves: it waits calmly, unhurriedly, knowing that at some point, it will show itself. Love is ready to do its work at the right moment, but it waits calmly and meekly. Love is patient. It can bear all things. It believes all things. It hopes for all things. Because Love understands.

She had never allowed herself to be provoked; she had learned early that whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant.

If you would only stop thinking, you would be much happier.

Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.

Always shun whatever may make you angry.

Let anger's fire be slow to burn.

A turn or two I'll walk To still my beating mind.

No passion disturbs the soundness of our judgement as anger does.

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.

My greatest talent is calmness and being positive. I concentrate on what you can do even in the worst of times. You don't judge by last week's errors or lost opportunity.

Everything in life worth achieving requires practice. In fact, life itself is nothing more than one long practice session, an endless effort of refining our motions. When the proper mechanics of practicing are understood, the task of learning something new becomes a stress-free experience of joy and calmness, a process which settles all areas in your life and promotes proper perspective on all of life's difficulties. —Thomas Sterner

Now practice going through this version of the scenario each night until you have mastered it and can fantasize handling the situation effectively and calmly in this manner. This cognitive rehearsal will enable you to program yourself to respond in a more assertive and relaxed way when the actual situation confronts you again.

If you can't do something about a situation, there's no point in worrying about it.

who can tell me that that calmness itself is not DESPAIR?

Think before you speak, think twice before you shout, think three times before you go mad.

Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome.

Violence is my last option.