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Quotes About Calm

I don't like rushing, just like to sit down and rest before a match. Half the time I don't even look at the draw.
~ Evonne Goolagong Cawley
Come sleep, oh sleep, the certain knot of peace.
~ Garth Nix
Sometimes love means counting to ten more than once. — Jim Zabloski
~ Gary Chapman
I can recover my calm by living the metaphors of the ocean.
~ Gaston Bachelard
And for a dreamer of words, what calm there is in the word round. How peacefully it makes one's mouth, lips, and the being of breath become round. Because this too should be spoken by a philosopher who believes in the poetic substance of speech.
~ Gaston Bachelard
Un silencio espantoso sucede a todos los ruidos.
~ Gaston Leroux
They both had the same calm and dreamy little cast of mind. They delighted in stories, in old Breton legends, and their favorite sport was to go and ask for them at the cottage-doors, like beggars: Ma'am... or, Kind gentleman... have you a little story to tell us, please? And it seldom happened that they did not have one given them; for nearly every old Breton grandame has, at least once in her life, seen the korrigans dance by moonlight on the heather.
~ Gaston Leroux
I've always liked things I can just trance out to. Because whatat means is that you've escaped the chafe of time. Often when you're bored, it's that friction between you and time.
~ Geoff Dyer
Antes de que cese el trueno, cae la lluvia.»
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation
~ George Bernard Shaw
Não vale a pena uma pessoa preocupar-se muito seja com o que for (...)
~ George Eliot
Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
~ George Herbert
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky; The dew shall weep thy fall tonight, For thou must die.
~ George Herbert
Peace, prattler.
~ George Herbert
What would I have done if the elevator became stuck again? Simple—I would have maintained a sense of calm and focused on how darkness is his friend.
~ George Kohlrieser
Just three minutes a day of silence is a wonderful exercise to reset your ears and to recalibrate so that you can hear the quiet again. If you can't get absolute silence, go for quiet; that's absolutely fine.
~ Julian Treasure
New Age music does something wonderful to the nervous system.
~ Paul Horn
Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
At the premiere for 'Leave It to Beaver,' I was walking down the red carpet, and they were screaming my name, and I'm wondering, 'What do I do?' So I had to think, 'OK, calm down, one person at a time.' Everything is kind of rattling, but afterwards, my publicist said I did really good.
~ Erika Christensen
It is extraordinary to see the sea; what a spectacle! She is so unfettered that one wonders whether it is possible that she again become calm.
~ Claude Monet
I love really simple colours at home - lots of cream, beige, and grey with rustic wooden tables.
~ Ella Woodward
I used to have seven dogs; now I have a more manageable four. I was in Cornwall, and one dog got swept away downstream, so my cousin dived in to get it, then her dog dived in. So I jumped in to rescue hers. Those dogs are my calm. That's how I cope with the business - I get the sanity on my woodland dog walks, being a tomboy.
~ Alesha Dixon
When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City.
~ Steve Burns
I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
~ Patricia Highsmith