Quotes About Calm

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Au bout d'un moment, l'enfant cessa de lutter et posa ses mains

In surfing, and maybe even in life, the trick is to use the calm between the waves to position yourself for the next one.

How still it was up here but why was it not ever peaceful?

We sit together in silence for a while. This is what I have always liked about James. We can make a good silence together. There's something between us that doesn't need words or actions. It settles around us and I can feel it now, hovering gently, ready to wrap me in its nebulous folds, like a delicate lace shawl. I want it to be like this always, something inside us meeting and holding hands, something calm and soothing and healing.

I exist in the eye of the storm, the calm in the centre of a perpetual hurricane of cars and lorries heading for the M6, the north and Scotland, or south to Penzance and Land's End. I sometimes wonder if they don't go on the motorway at all, that I hear the same vehicles circling endlessly, a kind of multiple Flying Dutchman, doomed to travel for ever. I don't regret for one minute that I am no longer one of them.

The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from.

In the sky, through the window, white clouds were coming undone, running loose from the calm blue.

Por eso recomienda tanto la calma y la paciencia, en primer lugar consigo mismo. «Guardaos de las precipitaciones y de las inquietudes, porque no hay nada que nos estorbe más para caminar en la perfección» (Carta a Santa Chantal, 57, colec. Blaise).

En resumen, no os enfadéis, o por lo menos, no os turbéis porque os habéis turbado, no os alteréis porque os habéis alterado, no os inquietéis porque esas molestas pasiones os han inquietado; tomad vuestro corazón y ponedlo suavemente en manos de nuestro Señor (Carta a una señora, 833). Haced que vuestro corazón vuelva a estar en paz con vos misma, aunque estéis tan llena de miserias» (Carta 186).

As I have said, I am comparatively speaking calm, do not wish for anything, or expect anything, am resigned in fact to that kind of spiritual paralysis until the time comes when bodily paralysis carries me off, as it carried off my father.

Regular elicitation of the Relaxation Response can prevent, and compensate for, the damage incurred by frequent nervous reactions that pulse through our hearts and bodies.

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

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

there is an art to being in a hurry but not showing it." 390

Some would think that it ought to come in the course of nature to a woman of thirty-six, a wife and mother. A little calm, a little quiet within - little chance. Even after childbearing, there is blood in your veins, not milk.

You seem very calm. Yes. Learn from it.

Only reading, she knew, could distract her from her obssessive thoughts and restore her sense of peace.

You have the potential for becoming air; as still, as necessary, just there.

Yare Yare Daze.

No fire at all.

I don't feel calm at all. I am a maelstrom of emotions. All I want to do is scream.

no matter how eager you are for it, you cannot make the moon set nor rise any faster.

Por mucho que te empeñes, no conseguirás que la luna se ponga o salga más deprisa.