Calm Mind Quotes

• A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Grateful, Compassion, Hatred

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• Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.

  Dalai Lama

  Strength, Self Confidence, Important

  "What The Dalai Lama Thinks Of The Mindful Revolution". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2014.

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• A calm mind helps our human intelligence to assess the situation realistically.

  Dalai Lama

  Helping, Situation, Humans

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• We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Leadership, Uplifting

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• In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create disticntions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

  Gautama Buddha

  Believe, Buddhism, Sky

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• Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Morning, Lakes, Ideas

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• Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Self, Discipline

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• What you think you become.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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• Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Imagination, Focus

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• A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.

  Eric Maisel

  Mind, Calm, Persons

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• Developing concern for others, thinking of them as part of us, brings self-confidence , reduces our sense of suspicion and mistrust, and enables us to develop a calm mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Self Confidence, Thinking, Concern For Others

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• Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Happiness, Courage

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• Peace of mind is the basis of a healthy body and a healthy mind; so peace of mind, a calm mind, is very, very important.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Healthy, Important

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• The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from.

  Clarence Clemons

  Self, Soul, Rock N Roll

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• When we are angry we are blind to reality. Anger may bring us a temporary burst of energy, but that energy is blind and it blocks the part of our brain that distinguishes right from wrong. To deal with our problems, we need to be practical and realistic. If we are to be realistic, we need to use our human intelligence properly, which means we need a calm mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Block, Mean, Reality

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• Since we desire the true happiness that is brought about by a calm mind, and such peace of mind arises only from having a compassionate attitude, we need to make a concerted effort to develop compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Positive, Happiness, Buddhist

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• Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Patience, Comfort, Bitter

  "On Tranquility of the Mind". Seneca the Younger's letter to Serenus as translated in William Bell Langsdorf "Tranquillity of Mind and Providence", 1900.

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• A calm mind is good for our physical health, but it also enables us to see things more realistically.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Calm, Physical Health

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• See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.

  John Muir

  Writing, Technical Knowledge, Mind

  John Muir (2015). “THE YOSEMITE COLLECTION of John Muir (Illustrated): The Yosemite, Our National Parks, Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park, A Rival of the Yosemite, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Yosemite Glaciers, Yosemite in Winter & Yosemite in Spring”, p.190, e-artnow

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• Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?

  Lucretius

  Care, Guests, Fool

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1947). “Titi Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex: Prolegomena. Text. Translation”

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• Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.

  Gogen Yamaguchi

  Art, Clever, Moving

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• Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heart, Christ, Benediction

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 589), 1895.

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• Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn’t think that human inner values don’t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm mind are the source of real happiness and good health. Our human intelligence tells us which of our emotions are positive and helpful and which are damaging and to be restrained or avoided.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, Real

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