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• I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

  Abigail Adams

  Life, Believe, Men

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.212

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• When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

  Sara Teasdale

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy.

  Walter Matthau

  Nice, White, Giving

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• I don't have to try to be perfect because I know that my fans like me for who I am. They like me because I am weird and kind of funky, but still really calm.

  Bella Thorne

  Who I Am, Perfect, Trying

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

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• When people say that meditation makes them calm, they are often referring to this stability of the mind. A stable mind creates the foundation for a happier and more contented person.

  Sakyong Mipham

  People, Meditation, Mind

  Sakyong Mipham (2012). “Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind”, p.65, Harmony

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• No - I'm quite calm inside during the game for most of the time - not 100%, but generally very calm.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Games

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• God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

  Izaak Walton

  Berries, Innocence, Quiet

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Sir John Hawkins (1775). “The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation...: Prefixed, the Lives of the Author and Notes ...”, p.125

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• I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.

  Robbie Williams

  Kids, Role Models, Roles

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• Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

  Jean Genet

  Violence, Quiet

  Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

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• I think one of the finest gifts I can give my friends in the holiday season is to pause with a long enough quality to actually SEE them. My calm, unhurried presence communicates this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you. I remember our times of together and am contributing right now to another quality memory. I value you and honor and take the time, right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Christmas, Memories, Holiday

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• Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time and out of season, the hitchinker stood by the side of the road and levelled his thumb in the calm calculus of reason. [...] Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you? All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.

  Jim Morrison

  Eye, Circles, Bird

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• Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.

  Christy Turlington

  Yoga, Quiet, Ability

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• You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Eye, Quiet, Sometimes

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• People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.

  Serj Tankian

  Thinking, Opposites, People

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

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• Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

  Mikhail Lermontov (2009). “A Hero Of Our Time”, p.64, The Overlook Press

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• If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

  Xunzi

  Strong, Humor, Blood

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• Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down

  Dennis Eckersley

  League, Bigs, Sooner Or Later

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• The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night.

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Moon, Night

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• French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

  Bernard Pivot

  Quiet, Language, Speak

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• Because you want to keep an air of calm and cool.

  Maya Rudolph

  Air, Want, Quiet

  "New Again: Maya Rudolph". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, Donatella Versace, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 20, 2013.

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• A samurai must remain calm at all times even in the face of danger.

  Chris Bradford

  Samurai, Faces, Danger

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• The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm which is not easily disturbed, or else a brokenness that can hardly be healed. Conversely, it is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed in order to produce valuable and lasting results.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Uplifting, Relaxation

  "The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche".

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• But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

  Jose Marti

  Love, Sweet, Encouragement

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

  Elizabeth George

  Stay Calm, Matter, Ability

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• Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.

  Andre Kostelanetz

  Should Have, Listening, Sound

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