Quotes About Calm

there was only the sound of the sea.

Heaven be praised for solitude!

I was thinking between 3 and 4 this morning, of my 55 years. I lay awake so calm, so content, as if I'd stepped off the whirling world into a deep blue quiet space and there open eyed existed, beyond harm; armed against all that can happen.

and it was a relief when they went to bed. For now she need not think about anybody.

This morning I am wonderfully peaceful. Just like a storm that has spent itself.

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).

Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).

He aims at the kind of spontaneous performance which occurs only when the mind is calm and seems at one with the body, which finds its own surprising ways to surpass its own limits again and again. Moreover, while overcoming the common hang-ups of competition, the player of the inner game uncovers a will to win which unlocks all his energy and which is never discouraged by losing.

As one achieves focus, the mind quiets. As the mind is kept in the present, it becomes calm. Focus means keeping the mind now and here.

He aims at the kind of spontaneous performance which occurs only when the mind is calm and seems at one with the body, which finds its own surprising ways to surpass its own limits again and again. Moreover, while overcoming the common hang-ups of competition, the player of the inner game uncovers a will to win which unlocks all his energy and which is never discouraged by losing. There

Perhaps the most indispensable tool for human beings in modern times is the ability to remain calm in the midst of rapid and unsettling changes.

The voyage was uneventful.

The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss.

Sea Calm How still, How strangely still The water is today. It is not good For water To be so still that way.

And the night becomes Still as a whispering heartbeat.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

A violent wind does not last for a whole morning...

Unless the word "just" had an added meaning of "with the help of magical powers," urging me to "just do" something sounded like telling a person consumed by anxiety to "just calm down" or a clinically depressed person to "just lighten up!

Don't let my calm exterior fool you. There's a beast inside me that's capable of horrors you can't imagine.

Larry: i don't really get this fascination that people have with the ocean Cheryl: no? Larry: i dunno. i mean i stare at it for ten minutes and i go okay i get it Cheryl: don't you feel calmer? Larry: i feel aggravated that i am missing what other people are getting.

Especially in the modern world, where everybody is so impressed with variety and complexity, so desperate to be entertained, it is a relief to settle into this simple repetitive act.

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

Drawing upon my days as a litigation attorney, I told Anna that cases and confrontational situations are "won on facts": "Stick to the facts. Lay out the facts with suggested solutions in plain and simple terms and in a calm voice, which would win over some board members and, in time, your CEO and COO.