Quotes About Calm

Books are the soft landing at the end of a bumpy day.

There's always a way if you're not in a hurry.

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm...you will triumph." Paul Valery via Miriam Toews

We all possess the thunder of pure fury and the calm breeze of tranquility. If it wasn't for tomorrow, how much would we get done today? Whatever your purpose... embrace it completely. Get lost in the clouds every now and then so you never lose sight of God's wonder.

There is seldom any rational reason for having regreats about past deeds or events. Because the past does not exist in any other way than in your memory. When you recognise this lack of reality, you can be calm.

He had, she remembered thinking, a certain kind of self-love, the kind that comes from poverty, perhaps, having nothing else to love. He was very poor, except for ex-wives, of which he had several, and he had many theories of how to manage a life which he described with the calm zealotry of one who has received truths from the sun.

I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

Dynasty glided right through the chaos as though none of it involved her. The

How do they survive it? she asked. Her hands were hidden in the red sleeves of the jacket and only her fingertips appeared beyond the cuffs. The doctor said, Good food and rest and maintaining a calm mind. Nervousness draws a person down. It consumes your vital energy.

As she worked, her face was soft, her gaze blinkless, her body outwardly relaxed, nearly motionless. But inside her head there was a relentless noise, and to shut it out she started counting her records and then counting sheep. One sheep, two sheep. three sheep ... two hundred and fifty sheep think of nothing but sheep. Calm, she thought, calm.

Gosto de ser belicoso, como bom filho de Ogum. Quando me virem tranquilo, é que já estou apodrecendo.

Clutching the tablecloth tightly under her arm, the Queen felt for the second time that day a wave of dignity that made her lift her head and see everything at the same height as her batlike eyes. And this is why You saw me so calmly, Walking serenely Under the more than blue sky.

But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.

I was perfectly calm, I was the anchor of the world.

And beautiful, and there the sea I found Calm as a cradled child in dreamless slumber bound.

Calm as a slumbering babe, Tremendous Ocean lay. The mirror of its stillness showed The pale and waning stars

Far, far below the chariot's path, Calm as a slumbering babe, Tremendous Ocean lay. The mirror of its stillness showed The pale and waning stars, The chariot's fiery track, And the gray light of morn Tinging those fleecy clouds That canopied the dawn.

A sound of waves is heard.] "It is the unpastured sea hungering for calm. Peace, monster; I come now.

the vast theme Of those impassioned songs, when Cythna sate Amid the calm which rapture doth create After its tumult, her heart vibrating, Her spirit o'er the Ocean's floating state From her deep eyes far wandering... From "Revolt of Islam", Canto 2, Verse 29

Still water does not only run deep. It runs dangerously.

Spiritual rest can occur, even when a storm is raging.

The foundational truth imparted by the authors is that the adult's first task is to attend to his or her own emotional state, since it's only in the adult's calm, competent, and reassuring presence that children find the space to resolve their tensions.

The time it takes to establish a sense of calm is time well spent.