Calm Quotes - Page 29

• If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.

  Dalai Lama

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Meditation, Inner Peace

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2017). “The Dalai Lama’s Book of Transformation”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

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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, Calm Mind, Imagination

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• There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Past, Remembrance

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• I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them.

  Stephanie Klein

  Health, Knowing, Answers

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• When I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears.

  John J. Geddes

  Soulmate, Thinking, Hands

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• To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to some small star. Philosopher. Whilst she yet lives, were stars decay'd, Their light by hers relief might find; But Death will lead her to a shade Where Love is cold and Beauty blind. Lover. Lovers, whose priests all poets are, Think every mistress, when she dies, Is changed at least into a star: And who dares doubt the poet wise? Philosopher. But ask not bodies doom'd to die To what abode they go; Since Knowledge is but Sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

  William Davenant

  Life, Summer, Wise

  Sir William Davenant, “To A Mistress Dying”

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• Is it possible to be alive, active in the world, and yet have such calm, such kind of inner openness and presence that one can lead a life, at least in part, that is an expression of that quality of meditative quiescence that's on the one hand quite alert and on the other hand, completely at ease, completely at rest.

  Arthur Zajonc

  Expression, Hands, Quality

  "Holding Life Consciously". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. June 24, 2010.

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• Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

  Gautama Buddha

  Truth, Ocean, Water

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• I mean everything's a lot more smoother. It's just calm. IN the beginning, I had the typical attitude of a young rapper makin money... ya know I was the partyin guy... I was the guy wit the girls... all the extra that came wit the game...it's up to the artist to know when to say when. You can't live that kind of lifestyle forever. ...I learn from the other people's mistake. I know when to say no. You learn to make the right decisions and pick the right choices. That's all that's really changed.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Girl, Attitude, Mistake

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• New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Witty, New York, Rap

  Song: Simon Says, Album: Internal Affairs

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• We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the aristocratic calm, the Skull and Bones mystery, the dappled lawns stretching before New England summer homes. How else can be explained the Bush vs. Kerry match-up that confronts us this year?

  David Brooks

  Summer, Home, School

  "Democratic aristocrats and blue collar Republicans". www.cnn.com. March 15, 2004.

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• A man in Mali told me that there are seven senses. Everyone has five, some can use their sixth. But not everyone has the seventh. It is the power to heal with music, calm with color, to soothe the sick soul with harmony. He told me that I have this gift, and I know what I have to do with it.

  Marie Daulne

  Music, Men, Color

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• Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Kindness, Blow, Mind

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1588, Library of Alexandria

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• If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Peace, Believe, Relaxation

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• I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Discipline, Goal, Dancer

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Oh, she's my bodyguard. I mean, I'm a married man, and the last thing you need in that situation is to be considered a sexy individual. But I try to never let this whole McDreamy thing really influence us. I'm trying to just have a calm family life, to make my marriage work. It's not as if when my wife asks me to take out the trash, I say, 'Um, honey, don't you realize that I'm too sexy for that'? Well, actually, I do, but she gives me crap for it.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Sexy, Mean, Men

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• In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

  John Ray

  Men, Sea, Pilots

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.4

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• A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.

  Mark Twain

  Memories, Two, Perfection

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• Cloud-flying requires practice, even if you have every modern instrument, and unless you keep calm and collected you will get into trouble after you have been inside a really thick one for a few minutes. In the very early days of aviation, 1912 to be correct, I emerged from a cloud upside down, much to my discomfort, as I didn't know how to get right way up again. I found out somehow, or I wouldn't be writing this.

  Charles Rumney Samson

  Writing, Clouds, Practice

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• One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.

  Christopher Fry

  Hysteria, One Day, Bud

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays One”, p.20, Oberon Books

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• I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.

  John Newcombe

  Stay Calm, Trying, Littles

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• There is something about Sundiata [Acoli] that exudes calm. From every part of his being you can sense the presence of revolutionary spirit and fervor. And his love for Black people is so intense that you can almost touch it and hold it in your hand.

  Assata Shakur

  Hands, People, Black

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• Pondering a passage of scripture can be a key to unlock revelation and the guidance and inspiration of the Holy Ghost. Scriptures can calm an agitated soul, giving peace, hope, and a restoration of confidence in one’s ability to overcome the challenges of life. They have potent power to heal emotional challenges when there is faith in the Savior. They can accelerate physical healing.

  Richard G. Scott

  Inspiration, Healing, Emotional

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• The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.

  John McGahern

  Journey, Life Is, Precious Life

  John McGahern (2009). “Memoir”, p.107, Faber & Faber

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• 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

  Struggle, Years, Giving

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