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Quotes About Calm

Silence. Complete and utter silence.
~ John Orr
Your anger is like a violent storm, Cade. Your emotions swirl, churning inside of you. You have to find a place of peace within that anger. An "eye" in the storm. You must center yourself within that calm eye -- in the Light. You think you cannot know peace, but the possibility of peace is all around you. If a thought or memory intrudes on your meditation, it must be like the shadow of a cloud passing across a moon. Let it go.
~ John Ostrander
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
~ John Russell
I love when it snows it slows everything down.
~ John Searles
When his clock was inside my body, it wasn't just a clock engaged in the act of penetration, it felt like a gun of pure euphoria, a weapon, yes, but one meant only to calm all my fears in the rootless world. An instrument of both reassurance and forgetfulness.
~ John Stewart Wynne
Restless, he begs for storms, As though in storms there is rest.
~ John Sweeney
A perfect day is: Nobody calls with a problem they can handle themselves.
~ John Weigel
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
~ John Wesley
Beneath his awe, he had a sudden sense of security and serenity he had never felt before.
~ John Williams
Edith's strategy became more indirect, more quiet and contained.
~ John Williams
Too often, people approach meditation as though they were taking medicine—it tastes bad, but they grin and bear it because it's supposed to be good for them. Instead, make meditation into a pleasurable activity. If you're at ease and happy, you will be more successful than if you're tense and straining. The
~ John Yates
How very still you sit!
~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
She'd found the mantra calmed her in life as well as in the car, so whenever she felt fear well up, as it was at the moment, she repeated it to herself. I am having a safe, uneventful journey . . . I am having a safe, uneventful journey . .
~ Ellen Byron
I think there's too much mult-tasking going on. I think people need to quiet down and focus and be still more.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Slow down your mind. Slower. Think about how slow you have to drive when there's someone on a bicycle in front of you in the middle of your lane. Are you annoyed? Don't be.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Even under false accusation those who are in the right can afford to be calm and considerate. God is acquainted with all that is misunderstood and misinterpreted by men, and we can safely leave our case in His hands. He will as surely vindicate the cause of those who put their trust in Him as He searched out the guilt of Achan. Those who are actuated by the spirit of Christ will possess that charity which suffers long and is kind.
~ Ellen G. White
He hath said it, and He will perform His Word. Calmly rely on His promise, because He means all that He says. Say, He has spoken to me in His Word, and He will fulfill every promise that He has made. Do not become restless. Be trustful. God's Word is true.—Selected Messages, bk. 1, pp. 83, 84.
~ Ellen G. White
True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep.
~ Ellen G. White
When children get older, they can come up with solutions for dealing with other stresses, such as what will help them if they get upset before a test or when going to a new place. If they're asked in a calm moment, and if they know you'll take their ideas seriously, most children have creative solutions for managing their own challenges.
~ Ellen Galinsky
His touch calmed me. I thought I was going to melt into the earth.
~ Ellen Schreiber
A little honest swearin" wipeth away anger and bringeth peace to the soul.
~ Elmer Kelton
When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What's your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.
~ Emil Cioran
What place do we occupy in the "universe"? A point, if that! Why reproach ourselves when we are evidently so insignificant? Once we make this observation, we grow calm at once: henceforth, no more bother, no more frenzy, metaphysical or otherwise. And then that point dilates, swells, substitutes itself for space. And everything begins all over again.
~ Emil Cioran