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Quotes About Calm

Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!
~ William Shakespeare
This music crept by me upon the waters,Allaying both their fury, and my passion,With its sweet air.
~ William Shakespeare
Not a mouse stirring.
~ William Shakespeare
O polish'd perturbation! golden care!That keep'st the ports of slumber open wideTo many a watchful night!
~ William Shakespeare
We think it is calm here, or that our storm is the right size.
~ William Stafford
Glances Two people meet. The sky turns winter, quells whatever they would say. Then, a periphery glance into danger - and an avalanche already on its way. They have been honest all their lives; careful, calm, never in haste; they didn't know what it is to meet. Now they have met: the world is waste. They find they are riding an avalanche feeling at rest, all danger gone. The present looks out of their eyes; they stand calm and still on a speeding stone.
~ William Stafford
But hushed be every thought that springsFrom out the bitterness of things.
~ William Wordsworth
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!The river glideth at his own sweet will!Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;And all that mighty heart is lying still!
~ William Wordsworth
Hence, in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
~ William Wordsworth
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration.
~ William Wordsworth
Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
~ William Wordsworth
The room was filled with a kind of stillness. Not simply an absence of noise, but an accumulation of layers of silence...
~ Yôko Ogawa
Profesorul avea nevoie de pace, ceea ce nu însemna neap?rat t?cere complet?. De fapt, nu p?rea s?-l deranjeze când Radical alerga pe hol sau d?dea tare sonorul radioului. Avea nevoie de o liniÅŸte interioar? pe care s? n-o tulbure lumea de afar?.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
the sound of his voice could wash away the sour feeling in my stomach.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
It's peaceful eating outside by myself
~ Y?ko Ogawa
I wiped my palms together, brushing the petals that had stuck to them back into the stream. Petals with frilled edges, pale ones, vivid ones, petals with the calyx still attached. They all clung for a moment to the bricks of the wash landing, but in no time at all they were caught up in the stream again and melted into the mass.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
Time is a great healer. It just flows on all of its own accord.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
First you must be calm, then your mind can be steady. Once your mind is steady, then you are at peace. Only when you are at peace, are you able to think and finally gain.
~ Yang Jwing-Ming
I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
~ Yani Tseng
Life is stressful,dear. That's why they say "rest in peace.
~ David Mazzucchelli
Life is stressful, dear. That's why they say "rest in peace".
~ David Mazzucchelli
If one speaks or acts with a serene mind, happiness follows, as surely as one's shadow.
~ David Michie
The more we let go, the more peace here." He touched his heart.
~ David Michie
Mindfulness means paying attention to the present moment deliberately and non-judgementally.
~ David Michie