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• My mother's a Buddhist. In Buddhism, if you want to achieve enlightenment, you have to do it through meditation and self-improvement through the mind. That's something she's passed on to me: to be able to calm myself down and use my mind as my main asset.

  Tiger Woods

  Mother, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

  Daniel Defoe

  Wisdom, Storm, Weight

  Daniel Defoe (1836). “The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner with an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe”, p.338

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• To be honest, I know this probably sounds corny or whatever because I'm a musician, but listening to music really helps me relax and calm down - listening to my favorite songs. Also, laughing and hanging out with my friends.

  Austin Mahone

  Song, Laughing, Listening

  "Austin Mahone On His New Album, Touring With Taylor Swift And Why He’s NOT The Next Justin Bieber (Exclusive)". Interview With Taylor Trudon, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2013.

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• Work, look for peace and calm in work: You will find it nowhere else. Pleasures flit by -- they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Long, Joy, Looks

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• Let the young rain of tears come, let the calm hands of grief come. It's not all as evil as you think.

  Rolf Jacobsen

  Grief, Rain, Thinking

  Rolf Jacobsen (2001). “The Roads Have Come to an End Now: Selected and Last Poems of Rolf Jacobsen”, p.17, Copper Canyon Press

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• Lie down on the floor and keep calm.

  John Dillinger

  Lying

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• Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's.  Calms me down right away.

  Holly Golightly

  Doe, Breakfast, Tiffany's

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• The new cosmic story emerging into human awareness overwhelms all previous conceptions of the universe for the simple reason that it draws them all into its comprehensive fullness. Who can learn what this means and remain calm?

  Brian Swimme

  Mean, Simple, Stories

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• Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Beautiful, Perseverance, Honesty

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• But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Adults, Action

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• Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.

  Amy Ephron

  Shattered, Surface, Has Beens

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• From the calm morning, the end will come when of the dancing horse the number of circles will be nine.

  Nostradamus

  Horse, Morning, Circles

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• That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...

  Samuel Johnson

  Communication, Vanity, Competition

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.335

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• A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In this regard an adult can have a kind of mission. He can be an inspiration for the child's actions, a kind of open book wherein a child can learn how to direct his own movements. But an adult, if he is to afford proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Inspiration, Book

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• If we ask God for a calm, thankful heart that sees all the blessings His grace imparts, He can teach us many lessons in illness that can never be learned in health.

  David Jeremiah

  Heart, Blessing, Grace

  David Jeremiah (2013). “What Are You Afraid Of?: Facing Down Your Fears with Faith”, p.52, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, / The bridal of the earth and sky.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Sky, Earth

  'Outlandish Proverbs' (1640) no. 420

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• The Maharishi had invited us all to go to India to his ashram in the Indian Himalaya. We were there studying meditation for two and a half months. While the other three Beatles went back to London to start the beginning of their Apple empire, George and I went to Madras for a week’s relaxation. I took this photograph of George one morning, as I thought the light on his face was lovely. I think this was the last time that I saw him looking so calm.

  Pattie Boyd

  Morning, Thinking, Light

  "Former Beatle and Clapton wife looks back with love" by Todd Leopold, edition.cnn.com. February 14, 2015.

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• On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.

  Aberjhani

  Prayer, Eye, Hot

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.82, Lulu.com

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• There may be no trumpet sound or loud applause when we make a right decision, just a calm sense of resolution and peace.

  Gloria Gaither

  Decision, Sound, May

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• When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence, which is our soul. When we live in the soul, we feel that we are actually meditating spontaneously. On the surface of the sea are multitudes of waves, but the sea is not affected below. In the deepest depths, at the bottom of the sea is all tranquility. So when you start meditating, try to feel your own inner existence first. That is to say, the bottom of the sea: calm and quiet. Feel that your whole being is surcharged with peace and tranquility.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Sea, Soul, Mind

  Sri Chinmoy (2015). “Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life”, p.264, Aum Publications

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  I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.

  Andrew Jackson

  Storm, Doe, Suits

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• Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.

  Tacitus

  Military, Leader, Quality

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• I see ... a pile of skulls and bones. For the first time since my arrival, what I see before me is too painful, and I break down completely. These are my relatives, friends and neighbors, I keep thinking ... It is a long time before I am calm again. And then I am able, with my bare hands, to rearrange the skulls and bones so that they are not scattered about.

  Dith Pran

  Thinking, Hands, Skulls

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• Have you ever had one of those moments when you know that you're being visited by your own future? They come so rarely and with little fanfare, those moments. They're not particularly photogenic. There's no breach in the clouds to reveal the shining city on a hill. No folk dancing children outside your bus, no production values to speak of- just a glimpse of such quotidian, incontrovertible truth that after the initial shock at the supreme weirdness of it all, a kind of calm sets in. So this is to be my life.

  David Rakoff

  Children, Cities, Clouds

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• The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that’s not the one. When you meet your ‘soulmate’ you’ll feel calm. No anxiety, no agitation.

  Monica Drake

  Soulmate, Buddhist, Heart

  Monica Drake (2010). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.57, Hawthorne Books

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