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• Even in the middle of a hurricane, the bottom of the sea is calm. As the storm rages and the winds howl, the deep waters sway in gentle rhythm, a light movement of fish and plant life. Below there is no storm.

  Wayne Muller

  Plant Life, Light, Deep Water

  Wayne Muller (2013). “How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives”, p.75, Bantam

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• Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.

  George R. R. Martin

  Cutting, Snakes, Water

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.476, Bantam

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• Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Success, Leadership

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Aug 01, 2013

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• Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

  Aeschylus

  Soul, Flow, Quiet

  Aeschylus (1821). “The tragedies of Aeschylus”, p.167

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• A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Leisure, Action

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.176

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• My focus is on always trying to treat the inevitable highs and lows of life with the same blissful, calm energy.

  Kordell Stewart

  Always Trying, Focus, Energy

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• Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.

  Isaac Watts

  Mind, Temper, Contemplating

  Isaac Watts (1743). “The Improvement of the Mind”, p.185

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• Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

  Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

  Emotional, Evil People, Soul

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• The good point is when you combine excitement and calm together.

  Lyoto Machida

  Mma, Together, Excitement

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• He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Christian, Humorous

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.55, St. Martin's Press

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• I feel calm when I'm on my own.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Feels, My Own

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• Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.

  Ajahn Chah

  Meditation, Mind, Woods

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• To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run where the brave dare not go, to right the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from afar, to try when your arms are too weary, to reach the unreachable star. This is my quest, to follow that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far. To fight for the right, without question or pause, to be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause. And I know if I’ll only be true to this glorious quest that my heart will be peaceful and calm when I’m laid to my rest.

  Joe Darion

  Running, Dream, Stars

  "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" (song) (1965)

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• My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things.

  Queen Latifah

  Mom, Mother, Growing Up

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• Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.

  William Congreve

  Mind, Charm, Wands

  'Hymn to Harmony'

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• Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered with mortals, he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. Since he is gone where he feels no pain, let us not indulge in too much grief. The soul is incapable of death. And he, like a bird not long enough in his cage to become attached to it, is free to fly away to a purer air. . . . Since we cherish a trust like this, let our outward actions be in accord with it, and let us keep our hearts pure and our minds calm.

  Plutarch

  Life, Pain, Grief

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• This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Knitting, Long

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• I pray for my nation, South Africa. As Jesus stood in the boat and commanded the storms to be calm, I stand in the midst of the storm in my nation, South Africa and I command the storm, wind and waves to be calm, in the name of Jesus! I speak calmness to my nation, South Africa, in the name of Jesus!

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Wind, Names

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• Meditation is the calm in the chaos, the fastest way to settle down and get in touch with the stillness within.

  Donna Karan

  Meditation, Down And, Way

  "Donna Karan's New Fragrance Is Zen in a Bottle". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. September 16, 2016.

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• Look forward to future years, if not with eager anticipation, yet with a calm reliance upon the power of good, wholly remote from despair.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Years, Despair, Looks

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.26

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• Everyone knows pain. We are not meant to carry it forever. We were never meant to hold it so closely, so be certain in the belief that what pain belongs to now will belong soon to then. That when someone asks you how was your day, realize that for some of us - it's the only way we know how to say, be calm. Loosen your grip, opening each palm, slowly now - let go.

  Shane Koyczan

  Letting Go, Pain, Forever

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• When everything around you is crazy, it is ingenious to stay calm.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Crazy, Stay Calm, Ingenious

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• The social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies.

  Thomas Hardy

  Stars, Real, Passion

  Jude the Obscure pt. 4, ch. 1 (1896)

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• Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Mirrors, Practice, Mind

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• 'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unsealed. True it is that Death's face seems stern and cold When he is sent to summon those we love; But all God's angels come to us disguised; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after another, lift their frowning masks, And we behold the Seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the Glory and the calm Of having looked upon the front of God.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Eye, Angel

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