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• I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Nba, Trials

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• Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths

  Andrew Harvey

  Sea, Depth, Surface

  Andrew Harvey (2010). “The Direct Path”, p.249, Random House

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• People tend to think astronauts have the courage of a superhero - or maybe the emotional range of a robot. But in order to stay calm in a high-stress, high-stakes situation, all you really need is knowledge. Sure, you might still feel a little nervous or stressed or hyper-alert. But what you won't feel is terrified.

  Chris Hadfield

  Courage, Stress, Emotional

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• A real strong fighter should always look dignified and calm... I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness.

  Fedor Emelianenko

  Strong, Real, Believe

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• People are more dangerous when they're calm. When theyre loud and aggressive that's usually an act and usually trying to compensate

  Cub Swanson

  Mma, People, Trying

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• Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truth, Reality, Giving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit”, p.22

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• Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light--it springs up amid tears and clouds--it is a reflection of the eternal sun--it is an assurance of calm--it is the sign of a great covenant between God and man--it is an emanation from the distant orb of immortal light.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Peace, Spring, Reflection

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• There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Happiness, Heart, Men

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• The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Ocean, Storm, Encounters

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• Calm of mind, all passion spent.

  John Milton

  Passion, Mind

  Samson Agonistes l. 1755 (1671)

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• We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Grief, Rain, Fall

  Berthold Auerbach (1896*). “On the Heights”

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• The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.

  Socrates

  Hate, Desire, Tempest

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• Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Fate, Lazy, Rising

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• Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Grief, Humility, Pride

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• Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Crush, Peace, Revenge

  Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.26, Variocity

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• I've had pretty much the same crew for all the films that I've made, and I've managed to have really nice, calm, funny people. That is a big part of it, a family feeling of warmth and finding something interesting and making a platform for them to perform. It's a very difficult job, acting, in that it's totally counterintuitive to how we are brought up.

  Ben Wheatley

  Jobs, Nice, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead

  Charles Dickens

  Giving Up, Deep Water, Sea

  Charles Dickens, Matty Groves (2004). “The Chimes”, p.65, Quiet River Press LLC

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• I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking.

  Lucian

  Reading, Book, Next

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• When Zach said, "Im going to kill Dr. Steve." It wasn't the angered threat of a worried boy; it was the calm, cool statement of an operative trained to do exactly that. And that, I think, is why it scared me. But it wasn't as terrifying as the look in Bex's eyes when she said, "Not if I find him first.

  Ally Carter

  Eye, Boys, Thinking

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• The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.

  William Penn

  Men, Water, Bitterness

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• Welcome, Disappointment! Thy hand is cold and hard, but it is the hand of a friend. Thy voice is stern and harsh, but it is the voice of a friend. Oh, there is something sublime in calm endurance, something sublime in the resolute, fixed purpose of suffering without complaining, which makes disappointment oftentimes better than success!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Disappointment, Hands, Voice

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.155

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• First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your time well is to gain a certain ability to maintain peace within yourself so that much can go on around you and you can stay calm inside.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Thinking, Secret, Stay Calm

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.46, Westminster John Knox Press

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• A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sea, Depth, Wrecks

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.129, CUP Archive

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• A living gale is better than a dead calm.

  Carolyn Wells

  Gale

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