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Quotes About Calm

I'm not panicking. I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present—they are real." His voice fell, as he spoke, so that by the end he was almost whispering.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
When he slept he did so dreamlessly, like a bug.
~ Lorrie Moore
Avoid conflict and trouble, for enough of it fetches to a man without his asking.
~ Louis L'Amour
exhilarating silence.
~ Louis L'Amour
He wastes no time yet is never hurried.
~ Louis L'Amour
Slow down, you'll have a more harmonious outcome
~ Louis L'Amour
Stanley had no trouble falling asleep
~ Louis Sachar
Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
~ Louisa May Alcott
It is an excellent plan to have some place where we can go to be quiet, when things vex or grieve us.
~ Louisa May Alcott
They stood inside their own quiet like a pocket.
~ Louise Erdrich
reassure worried investors
~ Ron Chernow
I was quiet and self-controlled.
~ Ron Chernow
stop exercise in every form.
~ Ron Chernow
petrichord: the sound of water sliding over smooth stone.
~ Ron Rash
You mustn't think so far ahead. Just think about tomorrow, and then take one thing at a time.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
Heatherlegh is the dearest doctor that ever was, and his invariable prescription to all his patients is, lie low, go slow, and keep cool.
~ Rudyard Kipling
slowly, meditation gives our amygdala a chance to make more calm and measured assessments of situations.
~ Russell Simmons
Waited for the Library to settle into the deep, dark silence of slumbering books, and words tucked in between their covers for the night.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Laurie was the nurturer, mopping up behind me, always calm, always available, always ready to talk. And Larry was the disciplinarian who kept us all in line.
~ Ruth Reichl
When you get old," she had said on the occasion of her brother Tom's dying, "you don't have much emotion. It goes. At about seventy, I'd say. All those things and people you were passionate about, angry or adoring or longing, they all go, and a kind of dull calm takes over. I
~ Ruth Rendell
As the sea, when it lies calm and deeply transparent, yearns for heaven, so may the pure heart, when it is calm and deeply transparent, yearn for the Good.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Peace broke out.
~ Salman Rushdie
Every moment of the day—indeed, every moment throughout one's life—offers an opportunity to be relaxed and responsive or to suffer unnecessarily.
~ Sam Harris