Quotes About Calm

He who hurries can not walk with dignity.

So how can you avoid letting these subtle emotions get the best of you? Get some distance.

I tried to hold on to this compassion, sensing its preciousness, but even as I reached to grasp it, it dissipated into wisps. No revelation can endure unless it is bolstered by a calm pure mind- and I'm afraid I didn't possess that.

Anger and self-pity are useless emotions, so I push them away and speak calmly, even though my heart is breaking all over again.

Her stillness defeated his storm.

Even the bureaucracy does not shatter the stillness.

No problem," he was saying. "We're gonna be okay. We're insured.

On distingue, en gros, deux catégories d'amateurs de jazz, les calmes et les agités.

Choose to trust God and to be at peace. Replace panic with praise and worry with worship.

Clarity is often found in stillness.

When I shut my eyes in the warm bath, I feel as if I'm floating inside a cloud.

She stayed as quiet as she could. This, she found, was the trick: you didn't have to react to each little thing. You could just exist. Let your mind simmer over a low fire.

the haunted always take refuge in stillness.

Silence is more musical than any song.

We're cool," I say calmly, although I feel something else. I feel... sad. Like I've lost something I never quite had.

I then fell asleep fast. Fell being the key word. Fell into the place called sleep, where we rest. Where we find peace for a little while.

Great events make me quiet and calm and only little trifles fidget me and irritate my nerves. But I feel grown old and serious, and the future is dark.

History and hawks and hoods and the implications of taking something's sight away to calm it.

She was much too thin. She was serene, like someone accustomed to sickness, someone who layed back to back with it in bed.

It was much more difficult to be alarmed by the events of a day that was almost over.

Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety.

I take a few deep breaths before I begin to speak, and I listen to the sounds in the room—this gets me focused and really present with my audience.

It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music

Human suffering is a positive thing, which requires a positive answer, and sad as it is, the word is beautiful, because of the absolute truth it contains.[...] It is an error to believe that we can be happy in perfect calm and clearness, as abstract as a formula. We are made too much out of shadow and some form of suffering. If everything that hurts us were to be removed, what would remain?