Quotes About Calm

You want to put a man at ease.

I really want to put people at ease and tell them things are going to be all right.

I dont get ruffled easily.

I don't startle easily.

I've always been a very easy-going person.

I am an easy-going person.

I'm real easygoing.

You cannot think when you're ecstatic.

I'm good in an emergency.

I'm not emotional.

It's essential to have equilibrium in your life.

By balancing your breathing, you can control your emotions and calm your mind. From the quiet mind arises the wisdom and insight that help you make good choices.

The health, happiness, and peace that everybody wants don't come from far away. Health, happiness, and peace come from a bright mind.

Emotions are like waves rising on the ocean of the ind. Waves are part of the ocean, but not the ocean itself. Even an ocean whose surface is wracked by fierce wind and rain contains great calm in its depth. In the same way, a deep,bright seat of the mind lies beyond our stormy emotions.

The power of the soul can calm the rolling waves of emotion.

Meditation need not mean sitting in a special posture. Nonetheless, we can use certain physical and mental exercises to calm the noises of the mind and body, and sensitize us to the sound of the soul.

Life seemed too calm; people looked for unhappiness in art as one might look for a raw material in short supply.

Miranda doesn't dream, she simply rests. When Miranda's eyes are at ease, her mind is at peace.

Malina: calm the commotion. Disturb the calm. Me: (doltente, Molto Mosso) But when will the time finally come to accomplish this, when can I do and do nothing more, all at once? When will the time come when I can find time for that? When will it be time to stop all false differentiation and categorization, to stop false fear and suffering, senseless empathy, this constant, senseless pondering and musing! (Una corda) I want to think my way out slowly. (Tutte le corde) Is that the way it is?

I want to stop. I want to stay on Fårö, and read the books I haven't read, find out things I haven't yet found out. I want to write things I haven't written. To listen to music, and talk to my neighbors. To live together with my wife a very calm, very secure, very lazy existence, for the rest of my life.

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

Pretend that you are clever, wise, brave, calm, courageous. Pretend, and some of the time you can forget it is pretence.

Every silence consists of the network of minuscule sounds that enfolds it." - from "The Adventure of a Poet

KUBLAI: I do not know when you have had time to visit all the countries you describe to me. It seems to me you have never moved from this garden. POLO: Everything I see and do assumes meaning in a mental space where the same calm reigns as here, the same penumbra, the same silence streaked by the rustling of learn. At the moment when I concentrate and reflect, I find myself again, always, in this garden, at this hour of the evening, in your august presence.