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Quotes About Calm

I try to be mindful in my daily life, trying to stay more present and have more intention. It keeps me calm, and I feel less whipped about by my emotions.
~ China Forbes
I don't have life rage anymore.
~ Christina Ricci
On Sleep's soft lap the head without a crown Forgot the gilded trouble it had worn
~ Edward Lytton-Bulwer
People who have a good supply of GABA or have brains that are naturally very responsive to GABA may be the people who are naturally cool and calm, possessed of an innate equanimity.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
This plan, of betting only at a level at which I was emotionally comfortable and not advancing until I was ready, enabled me to play my system with a calm and disciplined accuracy. This lesson from the blackjack tables would prove invaluable throughout my investment lifetime as the stakes grew ever larger.
~ Edward O. Thorp
Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.
~ Edward P. Jones
It was a perfect day For sowing.... Nothing undone Remained; the early seeds All safely sown. And now, hark at the rain, Windless and light, Half a kiss, half a tear, Saying good-night.
~ Edward Thomas
It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Competence As many cases show, a police officer without an understanding of people will not deal competently with conflict, while one who has it can calm adversaries and ease tension.
~ Edwin J. Delattre
For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
~ Edwin Way Teale
Only Sex can decrease and even bring, into the zero levels, the burden of Sex; consequently, a victim of that becomes tranquil; calm and free from frustration.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Patience actuates one's power, which embraces the success and peace.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.
~ Eknath Easwaran
The popular etymology of the word mantram gives us some clue what it means to have the holy name at work in our consciousness. It is said that mantram comes from the roots man, "the mind," and tri, "to cross." The mantram is that which enables us to cross the sea of the mind. The sea is a perfect symbol for the mind. It is in constant motion; there is calm one day and storm the next.
~ Eknath Easwaran
Most of us are vigilant when making big decisions, but less so when dealing with little ones. We forget the cumulative effect of all those missed "little" opportunities. It is precisely on those thousand little occasions, and over a period of time, that the mind is taught to be calm and kind - not instantaneously or by great leaps. In the ordinary choices of every day we begin to change the direction of our lives.
~ Eknath Easwaran
Training the mind to be patient and calm under all circumstances, then, often begins with learning to wear our likes and dislikes loosely, casually, like a favorite old sweater.
~ Eknath Easwaran
When I'm exhausted, I need sleep. Even when I seem totally wide awake. A regular schedule and a calm routine before bed are important to me. Otherwise, I will lie awake in bed all stirred up for hours. I need a lot of time in bed, even if I'm lying awake. I may need it in the middle of the day, too. Please let me have it.
~ Elaine N. Aron
since any music increases stimulation, use it only when it seems to soothe you. Its purpose is to distract you. Sometimes you need to be distracted; at other times, you need to attend carefully.
~ Elaine N. Aron
Lies are better than tranquilizers.
~ Elena Ferrante
And to keep under control the anxieties of change I had, finally, taught myself to wait patiently until every emotion imploded and could come out in a tone of calm, my voice held back in my throat so that I would not make a spectacle of myself.
~ Elena Ferrante
She spoke with a different sort of determination, calmer, as if it were no longer necessary to fight to the death for every little thing.
~ Elena Ferrante
La culpa la tiene tu cabeza que no sabe calmarse, busca sin cesar una manera de funcionar
~ Elena Ferrante
Evocai versi e romanzi come tranquillanti. Forse, pensai, aver studiato mi serve solo a questo: a calmarmi.
~ Elena Ferrante
I said to myself that maturity consisted in accepting the turn that existence had taken without getting too upset, following a path between daily practices and theoretical achievements, learning to see oneself, know oneself, in expectation of great changes. Day by day I grew calmer.
~ Elena Ferrante