Quotes About Calm

He was so diplomatic he hardly spoke at all...

The best advice I was ever given for testifying in court was simply to "Take . . . your . . . time.

Your job when working around your flock is to move and work in a way that does not startle them or make them feel they are about to be devoured.

Sam?dhi is the state of concentrated calm resulting from meditation practice."8 In another, we find "It implies not merely equilibrium, tranquillity, and one-pointedness, but a state of intense yet effortless concentration, of complete absorption of the mind itself, of heightened and expanded awareness.

Between a book's covers there may be passion, bile, mayhem, or murder, but in the quiet spaces where it awaits its fate (either acceptance of indifference) all is calm.

Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.

Cartoon Network dot com, the shows are stupid, but at least they're entertaining and keep her calm.

Balance hangs in the fingers of Peace

I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.

Whoa," Thomas said, feeling bolder by the minute. "Slim it nice and calm there, old fella. You look three steps away from a heart attack.

solitude was bliss for now.

For a long time they just sat there, holding hands, no words spoken, in their minds or aloud. He felt the slightest hint of peace, as fleeting as it was, and tried to enjoy it for however long it might last.

ain't nothing to worry about." -Alby

The room fell silent. Thomas has never seen Newt like this. So angry-- so unwilling to put a calm front, even.

Give me a little peace. A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now, there's a thought.

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

Acting like a man means developing a non-anxious presence that sees the big picture, remains calm in a crisis, and won't cave in under pressure. Godly men respond; they don't react.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.

In the storm, like a prophet o'ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches; Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches.... In the calm thou o'erstretchest the valleys With thine arms, as if blessings imploring, Like an old king led forth from his palace, When his people to battle are pouring...

Hush! Still as death, The tempest holds his breath As from a sudden will; The rain stops short, but from the eaves You see it drop, and hear it from the leaves, All is so bodingly still...

And then the streetlights came on as always and we looked into one another's eyes— ancient caves with still pools and those little transparent fish who have never seen even one ray of light. And the calm that returned to us was not even our own. (from: 'Never Again the Same')

A pleasing land of drowsyhead it was.

When you're worried about something," said Henry abruptly, "have you ever tried thinking in a different language?