Calm Quotes

• Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

  Michael Caine

  Inspiring, Encouragement, Bad Day

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• When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mind, Perceive

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1986). “Self-realization”

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• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Fear, Yoga, Stay Calm

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1977). “Self-realization”

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• After a storm comes a calm.

  Matthew Henry

  Motivational, Uplifting, Peace

  Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.7628, Harper Collins

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• Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Spiritual, Peace, Upset

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• Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Happy Birthday, Happiness, Inspirational Life

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1963). “Self-realization Magazine”

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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, Calm Mind

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• Keep calm and carry on.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Keep Calm And Carry On

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• He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

  Plato

  Optimism, Age, Pressure

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.211, Xist Publishing

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Patience, Calm Mind, Comfort

  "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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• Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.

  Ettore Sottsass

  Fleeting, Patient, Existence

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• And I have asked to be
  Where no storms come,
  Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,
  And out of the swing of the sea.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Swings, Sea, Dumb

  'No worst, there is none' (written 1885)

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• Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Running, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.9, editionNEXT.com

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• I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Time, Nice, Smart

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel”, Laurel

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  There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

  Willa Cather

  Inspirational, Summer, Nature

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

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  When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

  LL Cool J

  Strength, Stay Strong, Adversity

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• When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Distance, Water, Boat

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• When we speak of a calm state of mind or peace of mind, we shouldn't confuse that with an insensitive state of apathy. Having a calm or peaceful state of mind doesn't mean being spaced out or completely empty. Peace of mind or a calm state of mind is rooted in affection and compassion and is sensitive and responsive to others.

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Compassion, Peaceful

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• If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.

  Alan Cohen

  Home, Delay, Results

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• Fear not; calm will follow the storm, and perhaps soon.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Storm, Fear Not

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• Calmness is always godlike.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Calmness, Godlike

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.530, Harvard University Press

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• Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.

  Katrina Kenison

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Prayer

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• The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

  Cyril Connolly

  Life, Success, Secret

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• Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Peace, Character, Roots

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• In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
  In the midst of the storm - calm.
  In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
  In the many roads - a certain choice.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Strength, Encouraging, Choices

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