Quotes About Calm

Todo podría ser aún reparado; sólo desea vivir tranquila y en un ambiente íntimo y natural; no provocar más al destino, ese misterioso adversario cuya fuerza y malignidad comprende ahora por primera vez. Pero precisamente en el momento en que todo en su corazón ansía la calma, el barómetro de la época marca tempestad.

for all he himself wanted was repose, repose, repose.

on the whole I thought I liked having everything very tidy and calm all around me, and not being bothered to do things, and laughing at the kind of joke other people didn't think at all funny, and going for country walks, and not being asked to express opinions about things (like love, and isn't so-and-so peculiar?)

Everything about the man spoke of virility--his quick reaction, his calm control now that danger had passed. And she'd never seen a man wield a gun in real life--it was kind of a turn-on to know that he'd protected her. Of course he had protected everyone, but he _had_ sort of singled her out by heaving her to the floor.

Someone who has a similar confidence in their own inner reality, and who trusts that they go on existing whether or not anyone else is present, does not need to be constantly checking on their sense of self. They are, without much thinking about it, 'calm, restful, relaxed and feeling one with people and things when no excitement is around'.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.

I couldn't have asked for a better kid. She's our own little Buddha baby so far. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop to tell you the truth. It's like the calm before the storm.

Nothing increases happiness like quiet time. The truth is, the only moments that make you laugh or happy are seconds of stillness.

To solve your problems, stop worrying.

A person with the best strategy never gets angry.

Where life ends, peace begins!

With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.

Knowing he had done wrong, prepared to make amends, settle his business. Determined to return to Brokeland, open the doors wide to the angel of retail death, and run the place into the ground all by himself, if that was what it took-but to fail calmly, to fail with style, to fail above all with that true dignity, unknown to his wife or his partner, which lay in never tripping out, never showing offense or hurt to those who had offended or hurt you.

I had slipped into that familiar marijuana state which lies between happiness and utter panic, and my heart was pounding.

Relaxed, I lit a spliff.

Death, I discovered that day, is not frightening, because it is utterly still.

You did not speak for some time. You felt safer that way.

If anything she seems calm in this universe of hers.

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

I try to sit still for about 15 minutes each morning without making lists or running in overdrive.

If I'm in a pressurised situation, I've learned to breathe, chill myself out and be calm.