Calm Quotes - Page 8

• I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives
  First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves
  The world; and, vainly favored, it repays
  The day-long glory of his steadfast gaze
  By no change of its large calm front of snow.

  Robert Browning

  Long, Snow, World

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.146, Lulu.com

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• A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Mother, Mean, Frustration

  Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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• Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

  Bill Vaughan

  Anger, Heart, Men

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• See me, how calm I am.
  Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  People, Calumny, Misfortunes Of Others

  Oliver Goldsmith, Richard Cumberland (1817*). “Comedy of She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night. By Dr. Goldsmith. Adapted for Theatrical Representation, as Performed at the Theatres-royal Covent-Garden and Drury-Lane ... with the Life of the Author, and a Critique, by R. Cumberland, Esq”, p.37

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• I see thou art implacable, more deaf
  To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas
  Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to shore:
  Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages
  Eternal tempest never to be calm'd.

  John Milton

  Art, Hate, Wind

  John Milton, Edward Phillips (1834). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.260

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• Love is the great intangible. ... Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate -- love commands a vast army of moods. Hoping for victory, limping from the latest skirmish, lovers enter the arena once again. ... Love is the white light of emotion. ... Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one can agree on what it is.

  Diane Ackerman

  Army, Love Is, White

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• I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  People, Tree, Shadow

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• Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Mind, Doe

  Edmund Burke (1841). “Works”, p.332

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• I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.

  Erica Jong

  Morning, Anxiety, Next

  Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.30, Penguin

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• Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mind, Causes, Trouble

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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• At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.

  Francoise Sagan

  Night, Sea, Goes On

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• The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.

  Madame de Stael

  Heart, Mind, Tempest

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• For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide -- laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course -- it was striving against the stream.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Years, Feelings, Tides

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• Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Numbness, Violence, Feels

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• Yet there are some resting-places, / Life's untroubled interludes; / Times when neither past nor future / On the soul's deep calm intrudes.

  Jean Ingelow

  Peace, Past, Soul

  Jean Ingelow (1913). “Poems by Jean Ingelow”

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• Leverage your time more by spending a little more time every day imagining and a lot less time every day doing. Do a little more imagining and a little more less doing. Until eventually most of what's happening is happening in the cool, calm, anticipatory state. Just imagine yourself into the successes, and watch what happens. Imagine a little more and act a little less.

  Esther Hicks

  Watches, Littles, Imagine

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• One's ships come in over a calm sea.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Sea, Ships, Manifestation

  Florence Scovel Shinn, Laura Berman Fortgang (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More”, p.41, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• I think it's almost necessary for most people to have the freedom to pull back, and then re-enter at an adult level, where they are neither playing the victim nor creating victims, but just participating in calm, adult behavior. Because an awful lot of churches just aren't there at adult Christianity, this seems to be the norm anymore.

  Richard Rohr

  Thinking, Creating, People

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Philosophy, Patient, Enjoyment

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• Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Storm, Principles, Action

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.37

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• You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.

  Albert Einstein

  Track, Different, Looks

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• Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Accepting, Supplies, Accustomed

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2009). “The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series”, p.366, Random House

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• I've learned that if you can keep it calm and keep it fun and loose, then that allows for ideas from the crew. I don't care where an idea comes from, whether it's the crew or my producer or the actors or anybody. I just want it to be fun, and if that's the case, then I think you make a better movie.

  Will Packer

  Fun, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Two things are easiest to do. One, to carry water in a sieve. Two, to still the mind. Freeze water. Breathe calm. Only two secrets to learn.

  Swami Veda Bharati

  Two, Water, Secret

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• I only think well when my mind is calm.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Thinking, Mind, Wells

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