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Quotes About Calm

night when I go to bed and every morning when I wake up, I use a method called the Heart Lock-in." "Really? Heart Lock-in?" "Don't knock it until you've tried it." "Okay, okay," I said. "How does it work?" "It can take from five to fifteen minutes, and you need to find a nice quiet spot
~ Rod Pennington
It is almost automatic that relaxation accompanies a deep breath. However, by adding the intention to relax to the breathing the result is even greater.
~ Roger Jahnke
Somewhere, I am sure, a calm, quiet place awaits me where I may do something worthwhile again. Another island, perhaps. Or a little cottage near the sea, far removed from developers, removed from Lapham. And, there is always Vermont. For everyone, in every time of despairing optimism, there is always Vermont.
~ Roger Rosenblatt
Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs — not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can "be", that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.
~ Rollo May
Of course her mind was never a hundred per cent at rest, because for that you've got to be dead. Life is always a panic.
~ Romain Gary, Émile Ajar
I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me struggle, enemies, howling crowds, all the combot of which I am capable.
~ Romain Rolland
The Rosary is not a road, but a place, and it has no goal but a depth. To linger in it has great compensations.
~ Romano Guardini
I think that was a moment of cool panic there.
~ Ron Atkinson
I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.
~ Ron Chernow
Aloe vera is known to calm the skin and cool it off.
~ Ronald Williams
Everything ceased. She listened hard. Nothing, nothing, nothing. But she could feel the calm breathing of the night. She put on her mother's mitts, took the ax, stepped out the door. Outside, there was resounding silence. The black sky was a poem beyond meaning.
~ Louise Erdrich
Outside, the snow drifted down the layers of air, flake by flake. Watching the snow glide down put Patrice into a trance
~ Louise Erdrich
Father Jude frowned into the blond sky. He was well thought of in his parish, calm and good. Things had been going smoothly down in Argus. He'd had a comfortable routine figured out. And now, what an unwelcome complication, in spite of the huge honor, to be afflicted with so many new problems, uncertainties, even doubts. And how terrifying, this feeling of loving someone. Thrilling. Awful.
~ Louise Erdrich
Dawn was sad, calm, and brimming with debt.
~ Louise Erdrich
Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
When things are crazy, her grandfather said, dogs are a reminder of sanity.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Peace is the center of the atom, the core of quiet within the storm. It is not a cessation . . .
~ Madeline L'Engle
she said very softly.
~ Maggie Shayne
if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.
~ Maira Kalman
The book. Calming object. Held in the hand.
~ Maira Kalman
We are also prone to be afraid of being afraid, and the conquering of fear produces exhilaration.…When we have been afraid that we may panic in an air-raid, and, when it has happened, we have exhibited to others nothing but a calm exterior and we are now safe, the contrast between the previous apprehension and the present relief and feeling of security promotes a self-confidence that is the very father and mother of courage.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
As long as you stay cool, nothing can defeat you
~ Nash
A woman that is patient has the ability to endure provocation, pain, annoyance etc, with much calm and strength.
~ Jaachynma N.E. Agu