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• Bathed in sweat and trembling with agitation, no, not with agitation, but with fear, for he finally admitted it to himself: it was naked fear that had seized him, and in admitting it he grew calmer and his thoughts clearer.

  Patrick Süskind

  Fear, Sweat, Agitation

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• And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Valentines Day, Way, Fit

  "Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence".

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• The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Passion, Divinity, Can Do

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta”, p.5, Advaita Ashrama

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• I don't enjoy the diminishing agility of the body!I had knee surgery and I no longer can go do three yoga classes and run. It's not as much fun, physically. But emotionally, it's way more fun. I am so much happier and contented and less agitated - I'm just calmer. So it's like everything in this human existence, it's a trade off - it's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirit. That's a good line. I have to remember that!

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Running, Fun, Yoga

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Brother, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The old man and the sea”, p.33, Hueber Verlag

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• The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Views, Truest

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• It makes me so much calmer when I’m responding to e-mails later.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Mail, Responding

  "Silicon Valley Says Step Away From the Device" By Matt Richtel, www.nytimes.com. July 23, 2012.

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• The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.

  Jon Meacham

  Christian, Religious, Fall

  "Jon Meacham: Covering Conflict". Interview with Randall Balmer, ircpl.org. October 28, 2009.

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