Quotes About Calm

To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

The end of art is peace.

I used to spend all of my time projecting. I was never in the moment. It was always tomorrow or next week or two months from now. That was one of the reasons I always had this sense of anxiety.

Did you really JUST fall, Jeffrey? Why does everybody in my family talk in these dramatic CAPITAL LETTERS all the time? Why am I the only calm one?

Things take the time they take. Don't worry.

Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.

I just like to take my time, have a cup of tea and read the paper. I don't like starting the day in a panic.

There is no hurry. Time means nothing to you.

I have insomnia, and it's hard for me to sit still for a long time. My mind is always "tick, tick, tick."

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.

Peace, that glorious moment in time when everyone stops and reloads.

I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.

I'm not like, overly anxious or nothing like that, because sometimes when you're overly anxious it kind of brings a weird energy around and I just like to just take things one day at a time.

There's No Such Thing as a Bad Meditation. Any Time you Spend in Silence is Valuable

You asked how I can be so calm. I don't have time not to be. I would like to grieve and worry and carry on, but that doesn't achieve results.

When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won't take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!

It is winter time, my friend; buy couple of breads; find a place calm and quiet and feed the birds; and for this action of yours, ask no more reward than their cheerful singings!

It's not as bad as it sounds.

When they came it was as if the lord of the world had arrived, and had brought all the glories of its kingdoms along; and when they went they left a calm behind which was like the deep sleep which follows an orgy.

It's as mild as goose-milk.

The window went up, a maid-servant's discordant voice profaned the holy calm, and a deluge of water drenched the prone martyr's remains!

And it is all as tranquil and reposeful as dreamland, and has nothing this-worldly about it—nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon. Until the unholy train comes tearing along—which it presently does, ripping the sacred solitude to rags and tatters with its devil's warwhoop and the roar and thunder of its rushing wheels—and

Everything was dead quiet, and it looked late, and smelt late. You know what I mean–I don't know the words to put it in.