Quotes About Calm

Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.

How can life be worth living, if devoid Of the calm trust reposed by friend in friend? What sweeter joy than in the kindred soul, Whose converse differs not from self-communion?

Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.

When you defend, try not to worry or become upset. Keep your cool and trust your position - it's all you've got.

Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

The silence that followed was lovely, the silence of flowers blooming.

Deep belly breathing is one of the most commonly recommended on-the-spot practices to calm your nervous system and, thus, anxiety. The reason for this is that when you breathe deeply, pushing your belly out all the way like a balloon, your vagus nerve is activated in such a way that it calms your amygdala, the emotional response center deep within your brain.

Anxiety is a feeling of dread, agitation, or foreboding associated with a danger that does not exist in the present moment.

When you are practicing zazen, do not try to stop your thinking. Let it stop by itself. If something comes into your mind, let it come in, and let it go out. It will not stay long. When you try to stop your thinking, it means you are bothered by it. Do not be bothered by anything... if you are not bothered by the waves, gradually they will become calmer and calmer.

Just continue in your calm, ordinary practice and your character will be built up.

To die is more important than trying to be alive. When we try to be alive, we have trouble. Rather than trying to be alive or active, if we can be calm and die or fade away into emptiness, then naturally we will be all right.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

W]hen your practice is calm and ordinary, everyday life itself is enlightenment.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

You know how to rest physically. You do not know how to rest mentally.

It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.

Stay calm and do not flee from Him who has been seeking you before you even existed in your mother's womb.

Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.

Ho pensato che se tu avessi parlato con Arseni, io ti avrei certo ucciso, ecco Ernestina. Ma con una calma grande, l'ho pensato, forse, neanche di questo mondo, devi credermi. Ho pensato al silenzio degli alberi, dell'acqua, e avrei voluto che anche tu fossi tutta silenzio, come loro...

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

Beneath the eerie calm of these unfathomable waters were deadly whirlpools of ambition, anger and unhappiness.

You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.

I take a long drag, thankful for nicotine. I feel calmer immediately. Okay, so my lungs are probably shriveled up, but I have a good idea I'll probably die before my lungs decide to quit on me.