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Quotes About Calm

My shoulders were light again, as though I'd been cured of the ague, and my tears stopped.
~ Jun'ichir? Tanizaki
I wanted to look calm, and to let them know that they could not demoralize us. I had no fear or sense of humiliation, only contempt for them. What had turned people into monsters? What
~ Jung Chang
sitting happiness in...
~ Jung Chang
Festina lente. You know what that means? Hurry slowly. Bene. He smiled. -A Good & Happy Child
~ Justin Evans
A person who is impartial, fair, calm, gentle, serene, accepting, and openhearted is indeed a refuge.
~ Karen Armstrong
Der kom en vederkvægende ro, en dyb fred og fryd over mig, det var som når en feber ophører. Her, tænkte jeg, kan jeg blive.
~ Karen Blixen, Isak Dinesen
I sat down to a lavish meal of Irish stew, boiled salad with beets, celery, potatoes doused in cream sauce, haddock and rice, and a long cheeseboard piled with pungent varieties and tasty rolls. I ate with fiendish voraciousness, and slowly, my hunger subsided and my nerves calmed.
~ Karen Essex
I must admit that I never expected to find such beauty here. His gaze raked her again. It quite takes my breath away. Sophia quirked a brow. He didn't look breathless. He looked calm and collected-a bit predatory, perhaps, but nothing to suggest that her appearance had been anything more than a pleasant surprise.
~ Karen Hawkins
I didn't wait to hear any more. I hurried up the stairs to our rooms, closing the door firmly behind me. Leaning back against it, I took some deep breaths to calm myself down. My heart was racing as if I was under threat. And that was how I felt. An ominous sense of foreboding shivered through me. I wanted to grab my bags and run
~ Karen King
Will let out a breath he felt like he'd been holding his entire life.
~ Karin Slaughter
Love doesn't keep you in a constant state of turmoil. It gives you peace.
~ Karin Slaughter
I could only think of you as being very distant and beautiful and calm. A lighthouse in clean waters.
~ Karyn Z. Sproles
How calm the house was. How deceptive that could be. One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs, she said to Ursula.
~ Kate Atkinson
There is religion in everything around us, - a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things of Nature, which man would do well to imitate.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
For every man, peace of soul is precious.
~ Nikolaj Velimirovic
Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.
~ William Shakespeare
All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
~ Blaise Pascal
Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.
~ Bertrand Russell
There is a calm for you where men and women Unroll the chill precision of moving feet.
~ Allen Tate
This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.
~ H. G. Wells
A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.
~ Lord Chesterfield
The wise man never loses his temper.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man sometimes needs only stillness, just stillness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Any man who pursues for peace is a remarkable man!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan