Quotes About Calm

Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops.

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.

Serene I fold my hands and wait.

God grant us patience!

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

People who never get carried away should be.

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

Always take an emergency leisurely.

Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.

Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be-in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.

Catching something is purely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves all fear and anxiety.

I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.

No sooner is it a little calmer with me than it is almost too calm, as though I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy

The secret of happiness ... is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm, always lucid, always willing "to be joined to the universe without being more conscious of it than an idiot," to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

Let not your heart be troubled.

Do nothing. Do nothing. Let it happen. Don't try.

I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.

In tumultuous times, it's important to have a very mature leader.

I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

'Balance' is a soft word. It implies calm, something almost yogic, but that's not it at all. The process is always chaotic and turbulent.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.