Quotes About Calm

Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.

My first meditation teacher told me that there is no such thing as a bad meditation. He was right. During the difficult meditations you build up your strength, which creates meditation for peace.

I like happy things, I'm really calm and peaceful. I like birds, bees, I like people. I like funny things that make me happy and gleeful... like when my teacher sucked my wee-wee in pre-school!

happiness is something from which fever is absent.

Everybody who keeps cool is superior. But who likes the man who keeps cool? Not I. If you go on like this I will fight!

The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him.

Even if there's a fire raging (deadline, release date, trade show demo, etc.), you don't want to be the first one to make a mess.

Men in their forties were so sexy: the calm assurance of what a man liked and didn't, where he set limits and where he set none, experience and a sense of adventure. It made the sex so much better.

PANIC FANS THE flames of fear. Panic dulls. Panic stills. Panic tugs at soaring dreams and hurls them down to earth. Panic destroys.

She'd learned that it was important when you were dealing with professional do-gooders to keep calm. Otherwise they judged you. Wrote things like anger-management problems in their reports.

Lake Dekanawida

Whatever the needs of the moment, I had a choice: I could do what was required calmly, patiently, and attentively, or do it in a state of panic. Every moment of the day—indeed, every moment throughout one's life—offers an opportunity to be relaxed and responsive or to suffer unnecessarily.

When the shivering and shaking stops, I know that I will be okay, but my jaw is still tight, and my knees are knocking and the only thing I can do is stare at the candle flame because it is constant.

Tis calm indeed! so calm, that it disturbs And vexes meditation with its strange And extreme silentness.

This night, so tranquil now, will not go hence.

If you're an urgent thinker, you must ask yourself why you have to be so frantic about things. Force yourself to slow down—both mentally and physically. A leisurely pace creates a welcoming energy. Start to speak more calmly, drive more slowly, and eat more leisurely. Choose to enjoy the moment instead of racing through it.

En mi casa, cada vez que se pronunciaba algo cierto, las consecuencias se hacían insoportables: la familia se resquebrajaba. La vida se volvía más difícil. Y hacía falta volver a nuestras mentiras y nuestros silencios para recobrar la calma

nature's beauty was a powerful balm for the mind.

in a world of chaos and ticking clocks, live for the moments that keep you still

Das wird sich alles finden. Everything will be okay.

Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow.

I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.

That's the thing about someone who rarely gets upset: when they do, you notice.

Now, don't panic," he said, putting his hand on my arm. "Breathe. And just appreciate, for a minute, the freedom in this chaos.