Calm Quotes - Page 39

• No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life. Some lean back in majestic repose; others, absolutely sheer or nearly so for thousands of feet, advance beyond their companions in thoughtful attitudes, giving welcome to storms and calms alike, seemingly aware, yet heedless, of everything going on about them.

  John Muir

  Attitude, Wall, Thoughtful

  John Muir (2017). “The Yosemite: John Muir's quest to preserve the wilderness”, p.11, Vertebrate Publishing

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• Every year when it's Chinese New Year here in New York, there are fireworks going off at all hours. New York mothers calm their frightened children by telling them it's just gunfire.

  David Letterman

  Mother, New Year, New York

  David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc

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• Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.

  Matthew Arnold

  Crowns, Tranquility, Wells

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.945, Delphi Classics

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• Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar! The will to neither strive nor cry, The power to feel what others give! Calm, calm me more! nor let me die Before I have begun to live.

  Matthew Arnold

  Peace, Men, Cities

  'Lines written in Kensington Gardens' (1852)

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• The simplified life is a sanctified life, Much more calm, much less strife. Oh, what wondrous truths are unveiled- Projects succeed which had previously failed. Oh, how beautiful life can be, Beautiful simplicity.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Beautiful, Simplicity, Succeed

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.58, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know: Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm: Endless extinction of unhappy hates.

  Matthew Arnold

  Peace, Hate, Unhappy

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.325, Delphi Classics

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• Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet comforting and strengthening influence on the wearied mind, calm the storm of passion, and soften the heart when shaken by sorrow to its inmost depths.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Nature, Passion, Heart

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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, Calm Mind, Technical Knowledge

  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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• Green calm below, blue quietness above.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Blue, Sky, Green

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.365

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• Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears a voice within it tell: Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Grateful, Sleep

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.141

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• Our state of mind plays a major role in our day-to-day experiences as well as our physical and mental well-being. If a person has a calm and stable mind, this influences his or her attitude and behavior in relation to others. In other words, if someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Attitude, Play

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.51, Penguin Books India

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• Do not scrutinize so closely whether you are doing much or little, ill or well, so long as what you do is not sinful and that you are heartily seeking to do everything for God. Try as far as you can to do everything well, but when it is done, do not think about it. Try, rather, to think of what is to be done next. Go on simply in the Lord's way, and do not torment yourself. We ought to hate our faults, but with a quiet, calm hatred; not pettishly and anxiously.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Hate, Thinking, Long

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• A strong person will not be nervous and not express aggression towards his opponent... he will face the fight calm and balanced.

  Fedor Emelianenko

  Strong, Fighting, Mma

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• A fighter, a real strong fighter should always look dignified and calm and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training, then he will face the fight calm and balanced.

  Fedor Emelianenko

  Strong, Real, Believe

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• My best advice for mental training is simply to create good habits, in order to build a sense of security and calm around you. Also, you could try to distance yourself emotionally from the whole situation. In my case, I just look at it objectively: We are two guys going inside a cage to work. That's it. Try to de-escalate the pressure. Take a couple of deep breaths. Don't hype things up. And stay positive, even if you're fighting for your life.

  Alexander Gustafsson

  Couple, Distance, Fighting

  "Exclusive Interview: Alexander 'The Mauler' Gustafsson – What Karate Can Learn from MMA". Interview with Jesse Enkamp, www.karatebyjesse.com. April 11, 2013.

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• A lot of people are like, "What do you do to get pumped up for a fight?" Like, really? You're locked in a cage with someone trying to kill you in front of thousands of people. It's not too hard to get pumped up... You've got to calm everything down, you've got to remind yourself to relax.

  Stephan Bonnar

  Fighting, Mma, People

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• I hold no emotions while I am in there... in there it is just calm and creative.

  Conor McGregor

  Mma, Creative, Emotion

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• I don't feel negative emotions. I feel calm, composed and ready. And as it goes on I get better at it. By the time the fight is on, I don't feel any emotions at all.

  Conor McGregor

  Fighting, Mma, Get Better

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• My best advice for mental training is simply to create good habits, in order to build a sense of security and calm around you.

  Alexander Gustafsson

  Order, Mma, Advice

  "Exclusive Interview: Alexander 'The Mauler' Gustafsson – What Karate Can Learn from MMA". Interview with Jesse Enkamp, www.karatebyjesse.com. April 11, 2013.

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• Before a fight I empty my mind. Every fighter is able to lose. It is not a big thing. You have to accept what comes and remain calm.

  Lyoto Machida

  Fighting, Mma, Mind

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• It's irrelevant to me if other people know who I am. I'm just, I'm really happy. It calms me down, too. If you're on top of an oilrig, fighting with politicians, or whatever - you need a bit of wisdom to realize that you're not always right, or that you're not always being reasonable, or you're not always listening.

  Nick Offerman

  Fighting, Who I Am, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
  We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.

  Walt Whitman

  Soul, Sun, Found

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.35, NYU Press

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• Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity?

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Heart, Grieving, Eden

  Alphonse de Lamartine, “Memory and Hope”

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• And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and the darkness, Musing upon the night's calm majesty; Wrapt up in quietness, with shade and silence, My soul more closely worshippeth Thy presence; With an internal day I feel enlighten'd, And hear a voice, which biddeth me to hope.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Lonely, Stars, Sleep

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies”, p.18

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• Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Too Much, Forget, Oblivion

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