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• The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, Relax, Wonderland

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• True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Creativity, Mind

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• Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Depth, Misery, Harmony

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1631, Delphi Classics

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• Calmness is the cradle of power.

  J. G. Holland

  Inspirational, Power, Cradle

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• To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Firsts, Sides

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1911). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Complete and Authorized English Translation”

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• Calmness is the living breath of God's immortality in you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Calm, Immortality, Breaths

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1986). “Self-realization”

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• Be patient. Life will offer you another chance as soon as you find calm within, for abundance is born out of calmness.

  Leon Brown

  Another Chance, Calm, Patient

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• We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation.

  Nhat Hanh

  Suffering, Needs, Helping

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Teachings on Love: Easyread Edition”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency, become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'

  Rudy Giuliani

  Father, Jam, Able

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• A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

  Aesop

  Peace, Stress, Food

  Aesop (1947). “The Fables of AEsop”, Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms

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• True peace is a quality you carry within yourself, regardless of external circumstances.

  John Templeton

  Peace, Relax, Quality

  John Templeton (1994). “Discovering Laws Of Life: Tfp”, p.41, Templeton Foundation Press

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• Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.

  Maya Angelou

  Relax, Taking A Break, Problem

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.64, Bantam

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• Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Calm, Aggravating

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• If you're going to live in the anxiety of the surface of this world, you're never going to find the depth, the source. If you want calmness, you've got to go deeper.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Anxiety, Depth, World

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Easy, Inactivity, Hard

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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• Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Power, Calm, Aspect

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• What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Greatness, Land, Needs

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “The Remains of the Day”, p.23, Faber & Faber

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• The calm man is not the man who is dull. You must not mistake Sattva for dullness or laziness. The calm man is the one who has control over the mind waves. Activity is the manifestation of inferior strength, calmness, of the superior.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mistake, Men, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.68, Advaita Ashrama

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• Until you have the inner discipline that brings calmness of mind, external facilities and conditions will never bring the joy and happiness you seek. On the other hand, if you possess this inner quality, calmness of mind, a degree of stability within, even if you lack the various external factors that you would normally require to be happy, it will still be possible to live a happy and joyful life.

  Dalai Lama

  Hands, Discipline, Joy

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• What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

  Ovid

  Sad, Pain, Grief

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• Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Heart, Mind

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• Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

  Victor Hugo

  Lying, Wine, Excitement

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• To increase speed you must increase the amount of rest, peace, calmness that you can maintain. That is the secret to playing fast.

  Pepe Romero

  Secret, Speed, Increase

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• To reach the Land of Calmness, you must pass through the Land of Storms! All heavens require hard struggling!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Struggle, Land, Heaven

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• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Happiness, Sad

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