Quotes About Calm

Our continual connection to social media makes us prone to new forms of viral emotional effects. These are not media designed for calm reflection. With their constant presence, we have less and less mental space to step back and think.

Not only because of the fact that . . . oppression usually increases if it is suffered calmly and without protest, but also because opposition gives us inner satisfaction, distraction, relief . . . Our opposition makes us feel that we are not completely victims of the circumstances. GEORG SIMMEL, 1858–1918

Often it is the quiet ones, those who give out less at first glance, who hide greater depths, and who secretly wield greater power.

Tak usah cemas, akan banyak waktu untuk tidur setelah kita mati.

Men listened closer to calm tones than to the loudest shouts, so long as firmness and certainty accompanied the calm.

quietly as they waited. Mandarb danced in circles

It was the calm of the observer, the uninvolved observer, separated from the events, knowing of them but not essentially involved.

The more you read, the more you calm down.

Meanwhile, the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) arises from different midbrain/brain-stem nuclei that project down the spine to the body. In contrast to the SNS and the four Fs, the PNS is about calm, vegetative states. The SNS speeds up the heart; the PNS slows it down. The PNS promotes digestion; the SNS inhibits it (which makes sense—if you're running for your life, avoiding being someone's lunch, don't waste energy digesting breakfast).

uninflected silence

When you are calm, you think better.

There was perfect silence, except for the sounds of nature.

Ah, well, let's not borrow trouble; the rate of interest is too high.

For Anne to take things calmly would have been to change her nature.

Now, don't fly off the handle. Martha said the butcher at the Glen had no meat this week and she had to have something and the hens were all laying and too poor.

Knitting is something you can do, even when your heart is going like a trip-hammer and the pit of your stomach feels all gone and your thoughts are catawampus. Then when I see the headlines, be they good or be they bad, I calm down and am able to go about my business again.

The calm continueth not long without a storm," he said. "You lost me there." "The origin of the expression, the calm before the storm," he said. "From an unknown source in the sixteenth century. But it started a little different than how it's evolved. I like it more. The original idea that the calm can't last, not if you're really living. If you're living fully, the storm's coming to get you.

Screaming was for when you didn't have anything better to do.

My bed is sending out serious nap rays.

Usually when I enter a bookstore, I feel immediately calm. Bookstores are, for me, what churches are for other people. My breath gets slower and deeper as I peruse the shelves. I believe that books contain messages I am meant to receive. I'm not normally superstitious, but I've even had books fall from shelves and land at my feet. Books are my missives from the universe.

A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again.

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

Programming will aid a person in developing their mind and will aid their meditation. I find that people who have pursued programming are doing much better in their meditation.

Sighing, he settled into his chair, watching the vision of space at his front. It was stoic, calm, and never ending—deadly, if you weren't careful.