Quotes About Calm

We know that, when teaching students, only the utmost care and patience will ever work: we must never raise our voices, we have to use extraordinary tact, we must leave plenty of time for every lesson to sink in, and we need to ensure at least ten compliments for every one delicately inserted negative remark. Above all, we must remain calm.

n'allez pas trop vite.

What an achievement a moment of calm now is, what a minor miracle the ability to fall asleep or to talk undistracted with a friend – and what monastic discipline would be required to make us turn away from the maelstrom of news and listen for a day to nothing but the rain and our own thoughts.

Much comment on Mrs T.'s courage the next morning, when she arrives at the Conservative conference on the dot, but it's not difficult to appear calm and unruffled in such circumstances, as any actor could tell you. The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

Don't go to pieces. Go to peace.

Just stay calm and collected and baffle them with space dust.

When we take deep, long, slow breaths, we can actually stop the "fight or flight" portion of our nervous system (called the sympathetic nervous system) from overreacting to different types of stress. The sympathetic nervous system goes into high gear when our brain activates it in the presence of perceived danger.

The sky is white.

It's hard to think about nothing. I've tried it. You end up thinking about everything and getting stressed out. It's best to just think of one thing. A good thing.

It was so unlike her not to be able to sleep. No matter what was going on, she was usually out the second her head hit the pillow.

Okay." I smiled, although I was not doing okay at all. My calm exterior was an act. Inside, I was falling apart.

I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear.

You don't smack the water with your paddle if you wish to catch fish.

theophany of quietness

God may allow a disturbance, but we don't have to be disturbed by it.

He looked round at Mona, who looked back at him with non-committal eyes. She had better control of herself than either of the two men, and was like the core of calm at the heart of a cyclone.

Work, look for peace and calm in work; you will find it nowhere else.

No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.

If he could just get rid of the harsh irritation of his conscious thinking, then he would be all right; then he would be at peace

As he settled in, he assessed the way he felt with one of his favorite phrases from Mark Twain—the calm confidence of a Christian holding four aces. He slept well.

greet the day gently and with utmost care.

A terrified man can have an accident much more readily and much more quickly than a calm man.

Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.