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• As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Taken, People, Desire

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• The book. Calming object. Held in the hand.

  Maira Kalman

  Book, Hands, Objects

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• I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible.

  Florence King

  Prayer, School, Littles

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• Silence is essential for deep transformation. It allows the practice of conscious breathing to become deep and effective. Like still water that reflects things as they are, the calming silence helps us to see things more clearly, and therefore, to be in deeper contact with ourselves and those around us.

  Nhat Hanh

  Practice, Breathing, Water

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• When I'm home, I like a cozy, comfortable, calming space.

  Stacy Keibler

  Home, Space, Cozy

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• Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intelligent, Men, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.387

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• In the midst of the storm, your life boat appears. A psalm, a hymn, a word... calming the fiercest winds of the soul.

  Roderick L. Evans

  Life, Wind, Hymns

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• I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing.

  Joyce DiDonato

  Yoga, Thinking, Mind

  "Drama Queens : A Conversation With Mezzo-Soprano Joyce DiDonato". Interview with Sean Martinfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.

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• There's nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there's some one fighting with you.

  Mother Teresa

  Fighting, Knowing, Moments

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• Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

  Peter McWilliams

  Yoga, Taken, Thinking

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Powerful, Struggle, Light

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• We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

  Raul Julia

  Thinking, Meditation, Way

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• Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really experience and taste our full being.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Self, Meditation

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• It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.

  Alain de Botton

  Infidelity, Growing, Indifference

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.119, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Quite quickly I grew less deranged. I had begun the process of calming down, assimilating and compromising, which is necessary to live comfortably in the world as it is, and probably is why its imbalance never changes. But underneath, my idea of life was completely altered.

  Helen Fielding

  Ideas, World, Imbalance

  Helen Fielding (2012). “Cause Celeb”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• The measuring and mixing always smoothed out her thinking processes - nothing was as calming as creaming butter - and when the kitchen was warm from the oven overheating and the smell of baking chocolate, she took final stock of where she'd been and where she was going. Everything was fine.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Thinking, Smell, Chocolate

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• The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief.

  Gregory Maguire

  Wind, Rainbow, Storm

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.137, Harper Collins

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• Impatience has a poor track record for perfection. Getting things right usually includes calming down!

  Garrison Wynn

  Perfection, Track, Records

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• If you learn to go beyond the jabbering of your mind, and can go to the deeper aspects of your consciousness, then body, breath, and mind will not come in your way.

  Rama Swami

  Meditation, Mind, Way

  Swami Rama (2002). “The Essence of Spiritual Life: A Companion Guide for the Seeker”, p.72, Lotus Press

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• I have led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none, And never yet so warmly ran my blood, And sweetly, on and on Calming itself to the long-wished for end, Full to the banks, close on the prom- ised good.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Home, Blood, Long

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• Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines. A lovely eloquence, a calming symmetry; none of that describes this woman’s face. So perhaps I should assume I cannot do it justice with words. Suffice it to say that it would break your heart to see her; and it would mend what was broken in the same moment; and you would be twice what you’d been before.

  Clive Barker

  Beautiful, Heart, Broken

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• No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

  Walter Bagehot

  Meditation And Yoga, Long, Great Work

  Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1860). “The National Review”, p.234

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• I've always found the rain very calming.

  Venus Williams

  Rain, Found

  "The Gripper Diary - Venus Rain Joy". www.mirror.co.uk. July 7, 2007.

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• I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Husband, Writing, Cat

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• There's very few directors that know what that rehearsal's for. And often it's just about calming down the director. If he could see it or she sees it, she goes oh, it's going to be okay.

  Ewan McGregor

  Directors, Rehearsal, Okay

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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