Quotes About Calm

Music has charms to soothe a savage breaste is what the playwright William Congreve actually wrote. But it's part of our mythology: a wild or angry animal calmed or tamed by music. Which makes sense, given all we know about how music can affect the spirits of a human being.

She sometimes has panic attacks before class. Hence the meditation, sometimes supplemented with benzodiazepine.

The heat was thick as curtains. Night was fixing to slide over the world and the cicadas were calming down for that hushed time between daylight and darkness, when crickets rosined their bows.

Simon and Garfunkel

Well, if that's what you call being at peace, for heaven's sake just warn me before you go to war, will you?

It had been cold in Vermont, with early snow, but the white drifts lay to the earth so quietly, in unstained air, that the world seemed a silver-painted carnival, left to silence. Even on a moonless night, a pale radiance came from the snow, from the earth itself, and the stars were drops of quicksilver.

So we stood hand-in-hand, like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark things that surrounded us.

Sólo ha pasado una cosa importante durante los últimos tres días, y es que nada ha pasado.

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Morn of toil nor night of waking.

The act of meditation is being spacious.

Knowing that I cannot escape it, I see no point in worrying about

It is also nearly impossible to get caught in someone's dramatic reaction if you both breathe together. This is called sharing a breath. It's a way to steer clear of a conflict and tune in when someone is agitated and truly tuned out. The way to do this is to start breathing in sync with that person, then slow your breathing to a deeper, calmer pace. The upset person will automatically follow your breathing and calm down too.

When you are both breathing calmly, you reduce the drama and even eliminate it. What's more, this is when your vibes can get through and offer a solution to the problem causing all the drama in the first place.

My favorite breathing technique is to inhale and then slowly open your jaw wide, and exhale while saying, out loud, "Ahhhh . . ." This practice immediately centers and calms me.

I decided with this new awareness to dedicate my day to moving at my own natural, calm pace, and not pressuring myself to get going, get moving, or hurry up at all, something quite different from what I otherwise did.

what would Poirot do? Poirot wouldn't flap around in a panic. He'd stay calm and use his little grey cells and recall some tiny, vital detail which would be the clue to everything.

Silence is great. It's peaceful. It's something we all need, in this hectic modern life, silence.

In fact, her whole demeanor is calmer. It's creepy. It's like she's had Botox of the soul.

Buy calmly and with meaning.

KLYTEMNESTRA Go ahead. Permission granted. If you always spoke in a tone this calm, it wouldn't be so painful.

Where I will find peace other than in oblivion?

I try to live my life one day at a time, and if I look too far in advance, I get really stressed.

When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.

Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose.