Quotes About Calm

Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self surrender.

Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power. Take away then, when thou choosest, thy opinion, and like a mariner, who has doubled the promontory, thou wilt find calm, everything stable, and a waveless bay. Any

If you seek tranquillity, do less.

If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if you should be bound to give it back immediately; if you hold to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with your present activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which you utter, you will live happy. And there is no-one who is able to prevent this.

never to be in haste, and yet never slow:

the term of your time is circumscribed, and that unless you use it to attain calm of mind, time will be gone and you will be gone and the opportunity to use it will not be yours again.

El sufrimiento, o bien es un mal para el cuerpo (por tanto, que éste lo proclame), o lo es para el alma, a la que es posible preservar su propia serenidad y calma, y no suponer que es un mal. Cualquier juicio, impulso, apetito y rechazo están dentro y ahí no penetra ningún mal.

They seek for themselves private retiring places, as country villages, the sea-shore, mountains; yea thou thyself art wont to long much after such places. But all this thou must know proceeds from simplicity in the highest degree. At what time soever thou wilt, it is in thy power to retire into thyself, and to be at rest, and free from all businesses.

Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power. Take away then, when thou choosest, thy opinion, and like a mariner who has doubled the promontory, thou wilt find calm, everything stable, and a waveless bay.

The closer a person is to calm, the closer they are to strength.

The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.

I do what is mine to do, the rest does not disturb me.

You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you.

Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

As any bank robber can tell you (Nell would say), the best thing to do when running away is not to run. Just walk. Just stroll. A combination of ease and purposefulness is desirable. Then no one will notice you're running. In addition to which, don't carry heavy suitcases, or canvas bags full of money, or packsacks with body parts in them. Leave everything behind you except what's in your pockets. Lightest is best.

It's the unbroken calm, both within and without, that is getting to her. Real events happen to people, she thinks, why not me? And then there's her conviction that they are happening, all around her, but that they're being kept from her.

Sleep is the only rest we get; It's then we are at peace. We do not have to mop away the floor And wipe away the grease.

Silence is the language of inertia.

There are moments in life where it gets so hectic that time becomes a blur. Keep calm and never give up.

In life, when presented with any situation, breathe, take your time, focus and then decide what to do.

That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.

Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.

A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year.