Calm Quotes - Page 33

• In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath that calm was a deep well of loneliness I hadn't known was there. ... Anxiety was my fuel. When I stopped, it was all waiting for me: fear, anger, grief, despair, and that terrible, terrible loneliness. What was it about? I was hardly alone. I loved my husband and son. I had great friends, colleagues, students. In the quiet, in the extra hours, I was forced to ask the question, and to listen carefully to the answer: I was lonely for myself. [p. 123]

  Dani Shapiro

  Country, Lonely, Husband

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• Fear is killing us, but true love can survive. If we cooperate, we can beat doubt. But first, rebuild trust. Take responsibility. Happiness is still free, though not always apparent when it's right in front of us. So keep calm, it's gonna get better.

  Patrick Stump

  Responsibility, Doubt, Get Better

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• Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent's movement.

  Yip Man

  Art, Mind, Relax

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• To practice Aikido fully you must calm the spirit and go back to the origin.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Practice, Aikido

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• Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with your hands; you will succeed in agitating it further. Let it stand undisturbed a while, and it will calm down by itself. The human brain works much the same way.

  Koichi Tohei

  Art, Philosophy, Hands

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• The ten days we passed there [at Ta Chêng Tzu], we were the song of the drunkard and the jest of the abjects; but the peace of God passes all understanding, and that kept my heart and mind. We put a calm front on, put out our stand daily, and carried ourselves as if nothing had happened. The great thought of my mind in these days, - and the great object of my life, - is to be like Christ. As He was in the world, so we are to be. He was in the world to manifest God; we are in the world to manifest Christ.

  James Gilmour

  Song, Heart, Understanding

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• The gospel is one of harmony, unity, and agreement. It must be presented in love, and with glad tidings, by those who are calm.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Agreement, Unity, Missionary

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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• The sweet calm sunshine of October, now
  Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold
  The pur0ple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough
  drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.

  William C. Bryant

  Sweet, Fall, Sunshine

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• All still when summer is over stand shocks in the field, nothing left to whisper, not even good-bye, to the wind. After summer was over we knew winter would come: we knew silence would wait, tall, patient calm.

  William Stafford

  Summer, Winter, Wind

  William Stafford (1977). “Stories that could be true: new and collected poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Doe, Belief, Mistaken

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• Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new page as a small triumph. Until you get to page 50. Then calm down, and start worrying about the quality. Do feel anxiety - it's the job.

  Roddy Doyle

  Jobs, Writing, Space

  "Roddy Doyle's rules for writers". Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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• The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and calm trust, which is essential to the exercise of wise influence upon others, in times of crisis and difficulty.

  Dixon Edward Hoste

  Trust, Wise, Christian

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• On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.

  William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell

  Children, Sleep, Long

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• In between the Queen and the First Lady, Nancy Reagan, sat Tony Richardson, looking very calm. Later on it emerged that this was because, having not been apprised of the placement until he was about to sit down, he had died of fright. To have expired was to be fortunate.

  Clive James

  Queens, America, World

  Clive James (2013). “Snakecharmers In Texas”, p.187, Pan Macmillan

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• I answer one of your letters, then lie in bed in apparent calm, but my heart beats through my entire body and is conscious only of you. I belong to you; there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not strong enough.

  Franz Kafka

  Strong, Lying, Heart

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.37, Schocken

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• Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Struggle, Doubt, Wish

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.114, Indiana University Press

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• I discovered a new thing in the Lord's Prayer that kind of hit me. "on earth as it is heaven" to me it means whatever you take out into the world is what you're going to draw out. like those days when you're all yang and no yin, and you're fighting with people inside, and you can't calm yourself down, and suddenly you're pulled over by the cops. everything goes wrong in the same day because you created it. so, if you get heaven within you, it'll be all around you. if hell is within you, it'll be around you. it's always created here first.

  Jim Carrey

  Life, Prayer, Mean

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• Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts, Thou fount of life, thou Light of men, From the best bliss that earth imparts We turn unfilled to Thee again. We taste Thee, O Thou living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead, And thirst our souls from Thee to fill. O Jesus, ever with us stay, Make all our moments calm and bright; Chase the dark night of sin away, Shed o'er the world Thy holy light.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Life, Jesus, Heart

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• The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Lying, Practice

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1856). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703”, p.194

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• We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds. What asks our Father of His children, save Justice and mercy and humility, A reasonable service of good deeds, Pure living, tenderness to human needs, Reverence and trust, and prayer for light to see The Master's footprints in our daily ways? No knotted scourge nor sacrificial knife, But the calm beauty of an ordered life Whose very breathing is unworded praise! - A life that stands as all true lives have stood Firm-rooted in the faith that God is Good.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Life, Prayer, Children

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Religious Poems, Part 2., from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.90, tredition

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• ...The sage, traveling all day, Does not lose sight of his baggage. Though there are beautiful things to be seen, He remains unattached and calm.

  Laozi

  Beautiful, Sight, Doe

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Dear Night! this world's defeat; The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb! Christ's progress, and His prayer-time; The hours to which high Heaven cloth chime.

  Henry Vaughan

  Prayer, Night, Heaven

  'The Night' l. 25 from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Beach, People

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• THE TOTALLY AWAKENED warrior can freely utilize all elements contained in heaven and earth. The true warrior learns how to correctly perceive the activity of the universe and how to transform martial techniques into vehicles of purity, goodness, and beauty. A warrior’s mind and body must be permeated with enlightened wisdom and deep calm.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Warrior, Heaven, Mind

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• We need God as much in the calm as in the storm.

  Jack Hyles

  Storm, Needs, Need God

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