Quotes About Calm

Malcolm stared back calmly, though he felt anything but calm: if that monkey had a name, it might be Malice, he thought.

Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.

She did not move. Nor did she scream or faint; her only actions were to draw back the hem of her dress from where it brushed the shiny dome of his skull and to breathe deeply, several times, with her eyes shut. Her father had taught her this as a remedy for panic. He had taught her well; it worked.

His massive, plain, blunt presence was enough to calm them.

The drug calmed his soul, but did not touch it down where the blackness had reached.

A sense of calm settled over Tenaka. An inner peace seemed to pulse from the very earth at his feet, from the distant blue mountain, to whisper in the long grass of the Steppes. He closed his eyes and opened his ears to the music of silence.

I close my eyes and feel it running down my skin and for a while I can forget the noise in my head.

Even in the middle of a crisis, he had to be accurate.

I learned in WW II," he said, "that the slightest bit of excitement in a leader is transmitted to the men. You might be afraid, but the fear gets magnified in the troops. Somebody has to keep his cool. If you're a decent leader, you don't dare lose it—for your own good. You've got to keep your unit up there doing its job.

the slightest bit of excitement in a leader is transmitted to the men. You might be afraid, but the fear gets magnified in the troops. Somebody has to keep his cool. If you're a decent leader, you don't dare lose it— for your own good. You've got to keep your unit up there doing its job.

He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace, be still!" And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. MARK 4:39

Peace is not the absence of stress but the presence of the Savior.

It was like everyone suddenly knew what mattered. Money didn't matter. Politics didn't matter. Tabloid news didn't matter. No-compassion mattered. Calm mattered. Respect mattered. Did it really take something of this magnitude to make us realize this?

Deep breaths. I am taking deep breaths. Composure. Which, for me, means composing... Maybe this is my way of creating the illusion of control over something I have no control over. Like, if it's just a story I'm telling or a song I'm singing, then I'll be okay because I'm the guy who's providing the words.

The quiet times are the ones to hold on to.

placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still...

Mathematics. It soothed, it allowed you, once you had perceived it, to breathe.

The leaf of the camomile, parboiled in water, conduces to calm. And yet I do not worship it.

If you're still, and if you don't hope too much, peace will come to you. It's a grace. But you have to choose happiness.

Without trust, there can be no tranquil resting of the mind.

The feeling, a paradoxical mix of pulsing energy and profound peace

his phantoms of peace. Majestically they formed around him, marshalling and mustering in ceremonious state, and moved to lay upon him their passionless serenity.

The other sleepers lay calm and white in the starlight. There was something nameless in that canyon, and whether or not it was what the Indian embodied in the great Nonnezoshe . . . the truth was that there was a spirit.

Finally, she grew quiet. After that, coherent thought. With this, stalked through her a cold, bloody rage; Hours of this; a period of introspection; a space of retrospection; then a mixture of both. Out of this, an awful calm.