Quotes About Calm

Despair has its own calms

La desesperación tiene sus propias calmas.

Let me be calm, for out of that way lies madness indeed.

Permita que eu fique calmo, pois fora da tranquilidade só há insanidade.

I passed to my room and went to bed, and, strange to say, slept without dreaming. Despair has its own calms.

In some ways, it's easier to recognize your power when you're calm and untroubled than when you're distressed. Search out your talent in quiet moments. Don't push too hard. You've done it once. You can do it again.

The psychopaths are always around. In calm times we study them, but in times of upheaval, they rule over us." —Ernst Kretschmer

Descansado, he tells me. What does that mean? Descansado, Rip says. It means 'take it easy,' he whispers, clutching the child next to him. Yeah? It means relax.

I feel anchored, calm, even with Evelyn sitting across from me prattling on about a very large Faberge egg she thought she saw at the Pierre, rolling around the lobby of its own accord or something like that.

Starbucks. The calm and connection marked a shift from grasping for a receding future to the feeling of inhabiting a breathtaking if transient present. It was a shift, for me, compelled by a cosmological counterpart to the guidance offered through the ages by poets and philosophers, writers and artists, spiritual sages and mindfulness teachers, among countless others who tell us the simple but surprisingly subtle truth that life is in the here and now. It's

Now, more often than not, contemplating the far future leaves me with a feeling of calm and connection, as if my own identity hardly matters because it has been subsumed by what I can only describe as a feeling of gratitude for the gift of experience

Brian, relax, man. You've gotta relax when you make the crank calls.

I have worried about a lot of things in life, and most of them never happened.

Whenever you face crunch time in your life or business, mentally call a time-out in the game and focus on getting all the information you can about the situation before you make a decision or overreact.

I use the word to mean a natural state of peace and clarity.

Peace is a product of both patience and persistence.

there was no anger in his voice,no disappointment even.

Wouldn't it be a treat, Chaz thought, to have just one goddamn day when nobody fucked with my head?

The main characteristic of an alpha male wolf," Rick says, "is a quiet confidence, quiet self-assurance. You know what you want to do; you know what's best for the pack. You're very comfortable with that. You have a calming effect. Point is, alpha males are surprisingly nonaggressive, because they don't need to be.

Solo el silencio es grandioso; todo lo demás es debilidad. ALFRED DE VIGNY

You were a wonderful lover... Such a wonderful person to go to bed with, and I think mostly because you were really indifferent to it. Isn't that right? Never had any anxiety about it, did it naturally, easily, slowly, with absolute confidence and perfect calm, more like opening a door for a lady or seating her at a table than giving expression to any longing for her. Your indifference made you wonderful at lovemaking - strange? - but true...

Oh, God, can't we stop now? Finally? Please let us. It's so quiet here, now.

He didn't try to think, didn't care to remember, but wished only to lose himself in the peace and quiet

There was no hurry. Time was something he had as much of as he needed.