Quotes About Calm

Age hath its quiet calm, and youth enjoyeth not for haste.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Of course, you can't force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

Mark Strong is an amazing person. I just kind of enjoyed watching him. He is just so calm, dedicated, professional, and an absolute gent as well.

When you are caught in the heavy rains of anger, open the umbrella of mind, take refuge under the roof of reason!

Cool the flames of your anger by performing the wudhu for only water can extinguish fire.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Do not get angry because others question what you believe, be calm and loving, for anger is the root of a faulty belief.

Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.

The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.

make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came. Wendell Berry

He has come into a wakefulness as quiet as sleep.

He pushes the doors open and calls the sheep, standing back out of the way as they come in and crowd to the troughs. He stays there a while, looking over the field, making sure that none has been left out. He feels growing in him now, in spite of all, a familiar and precious calm. The flock is in the barn, well fed, safe from dogs and the cold, warmly bedded. They will be there safe until morning. If not today, on most of the winter days of his life this completeness has filled his mind.

Standing in the stanchion barn while the cows are being milked, I am impressed by how quietly the work is done. No voice is raised. There is never a sudden or violent motion. Although the work is quickly done, no one rushes. And finally comes the realization that the room is quiet because it is orderly:

I went hunting wild After the wildest beauty in the world Which lies not calm in eyes, or braided hair But mocks the steady running of the hour And if it grieves, grieves richlier than here

To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm: That is the top of sovereignty.

calmed down after a few seconds and went meekly back to KT-99 for a consoling dram of Glen Fleshan. My hands were trembling

what massive turbulence of emotion she hid beneath a surface of total calm and placidity.

But peace is my heart: I know it is.

He was as calm as a god who has seen both life and death, and seen nothing of particular importance in either of them.

You were required — this was essential, a matter of survival — to know your limits, both physical and emotional. But how could you know your limits unless you tested them? And if you failed the test? You were also required to stay calm if things went wrong. Panic was the first step, everybody said, to drowning.

his face expressionless, the tip of his cane planted neatly on the sidewalk and his large hands one atop the other on the brass knob. "First thing that you learn," he said, with the tone of a man reciting a proverb, "is that you always gotta wait . . .

One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.