Quotes About Calm

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content;The quiet mind is richer than a crown.

part of what makes for a skilled consultant, teacher, barista, or other service employee is the ability to deal with jerks in ways that calm them, protect your dignity and sanity, and still keep the money rolling in.

Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace, be still!" – Mark 4:39

I told the Booze Brothers that I would set up a conference call with Ernest, and that if we all kept calm and worked together, the "points" (that old standby word for "problems") in question could be "handled.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

It already smells good," he said, pointing toward the stove. "It smells... quiet." He looked at her. "Quiet? Could something smell quiet" She was thinking about the phrase, asking herself. He was right. After the pork chops and steaks and roasts she cooked for the family, this was quiet cooking. No violence involved anywhere down the food chain, except maybe for pulling up the vegetables. The stew cooked quietly and smelled quiet.

He liked words and images. "Blue" was one of his favorite words. He liked the feeling it made on his lips and tongue when he said it.

Submission to the power of the mature masculine energies always brings forth a new masculine personality that is marked by calm, compassion, clarity of vision, and generativity.

the world presents itself as tantalizing fragments of a lost whole. Caught in the foreground, he can't see the underlying background. Caught in the "myriads of forms," as the Hindus say, he can't find the Oneness that would bring him calm and stability. Living on the finite side of the prism, he can only experience light in its dazzling but fractured rainbow hues.

Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Quite minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

I had forgotten that, while Thor hurls his Hammer from storm-clouds, Odin prefers his strike to come out of a calm sky.

Be nice and silent as a boulder amidst breakers.

Lisa," said Dr. Ranade, becoming alarmed, "Lisa, everything is all right. Just relax.

I give you a small serenity.

Let us not gallop to meet future difficulties," said Robin. "A walking pace is enough.

Learn to Be Silent

To maintain the supreme sense of self-confidence I have cultivated, I repeat, 'I am strong, able and calm.

Tranquility is the new luxury of our society.

The wisest among us have a remarkable ability to maintain grounded when times get tough.

work on one high-value activity at a time instead of relentlessly multitasking—and do so in a quiet environment.

La tranquilidad es el nuevo lujo de nuestra sociedad.

SONG OF QUIETNESS Drink deep, drink deep of quietness, And on the margins of the sea Remember not thine old distress Nor all the miseries to be. Calmer than mists, and cold As they, that fold on fold Up the dim valley are rolled, Learn thou to be.

Paradoxically (since people say: Work, amuse yourself, see friends) it's when we're busy, distracted, sought out, exteriorized, that we suffer most. Inwardness, calm, solitude makes us less miserable.