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Quotes About Calm

Time slows down in libraries in a good way.
~ Hilary Farr
The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing. It was ever present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every, calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.
~ Frederick Douglass
Doing nothing is more expedient than doing something.
~ Fredrich Nietzsche
Eagles live in the darkness, And the sons of the Alps Cross over the abyss without fear On lightly-built bridges. *** Growing weak on the separate mountains — Then give us calm waters; Give us wings, and loyal minds To cross over and return.
~ Friedrich Hölderlin
When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.
~ Friedrich Nietzche
It is the stillest words which bring the storm.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
CALM is the bottom of my sea: who would guess that it hides droll monsters! Unmoved is my depth: but it sparkles with swimming enigmas and laughters.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealously ; as yet hath his gushing passion not become calm in beauty.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing lives which would be worthy of your striving, and the earth deserves not a sigh. Pain and boredom is our being and the world is excrement, ??nothing else. Calm yourself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
My soul is calm and bright as the morning mountains. But they believe I am cold, that I jeer, that I deal in terrible jests. And now they look at me and laugh, and in laughing they hate me too. There is ice in their laughter.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Shakespeare himself spoke of Heaven using wars as a punishment for perversities, lusts and passive barbarianism: If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to calm these vile offenses, It will come Humanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Dice que si no le sacas la muela te pega un tiro. Sin apresurarse, con un movimiento extremadamente tranquilo, dejó de pedalear en la fresa, la retiró del sillón y abrió por completo la gaveta inferior de la mesa. Allí estaba el revólver. -Bueno -dijo-. Dile que venga a pegármelo.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I gathered them on my stomach and waited for sleep. But sleep was busy elsewhere.
~ Gail Carson Levine
I think any manager who tells you, 'I am very good at keeping my equilibrium. I'm always calm and reasoned, and results don't affect me particularly. I can take the good with the bad, and I can put the wins and the losses in perspective,' you will find a special person. I've never met one.
~ Roy Hodgson
When you wipe out, all you can do is let the wave take you and stay calm until you can come up for air.
~ Garrett McNamara
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
~ Euripides
I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.
~ Ryan Reynolds
I wish I had more patience.
~ Toni Collette
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.
~ Germaine Greer
We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.
~ Deepak Chopra
There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.
~ David Copperfield
In the scriptures, 'peace' means either freedom from strife, contention, conflict, or war, or an inner calm and comfort born of the Spirit that is a gift of God to all of his children, an assurance and serenity within a person's heart.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
While exceptional employees don't seek conflict, they don't run away from it either. They're able to maintain their composure while presenting their positions calmly and logically. They're able to withstand personal attacks in pursuit of the greater goal and never use that tactic themselves.
~ Travis Bradberry
Baseball is not an emotional game, we have to get your brain working. Baseball, you have to have your wits about you when you go out there so you have to be not emotional.
~ Joe Maddon