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Quotes About Calm

Of course I would never compare myself to someone who actually went through a war, but I definitely matured shooting 'The Pacific.' I'm more calm and I have more patience.
~ Rami Malek
Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Fear not; calm will follow the storm, and perhaps soon.
~ Vincent de Paul
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.
~ Daniel Defoe
Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.
~ Rupert Brooke
A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
~ Alfred de Vigny
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
~ John Wesley
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.
~ Thomas Merton
Look at your mind dispassionately; this is enough to calm it. When it is quiet, you can go beyond it. Do not keep it busy all the time. Stop it - and just BE.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
~ Bill Vaughan
Wisdom is the repose of the mind.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.
~ Yevgeny Baratynsky
Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.
~ Aeschylus
Celestial wisdom calms the mind.
~ Samuel Johnson
Trust does not mean that everything will be all right. Trust means everything is already all right.
~ Rajneesh
Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.
~ Swami Vivekananda
flying from work is never the way to find peace.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Don't just do something, sit there!
~ Sylvia Boorstein
They had an assured income, nothing could disturb their calm.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
First, don't feed on drama. Stay calm. Horror movies are intended to be overly dramatic to entice your emotions. Notice, those who die in a horror flick are the ones who scream and freak out. They feed into the drama. When you are attacked on your Destiny journey, don't give in to that drama in your
~ T.D. Jakes
You can't stop the rain by worrying about it.
~ Tadahiko Nagao
During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide.
~ Tahir Shah
I want you at home so that any time I start getting panicky, I can stick my head in and look at you and take a few deep breaths. It's for my sake, not yours.
~ Tana French