Calmness Quotes - Page 3

• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fashion, Meditation, Silence

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.161, Univ of California Press

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• Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Never get angry, for anger poisons your system.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Poison, Want, Harmony

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• The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.

  Chris Prentiss

  Simplicity, Mind, Enlightenment

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.10, BookBaby

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• There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

  Arthur Helps

  Beauty, Humility, Grace

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• When you encounter some problems, if you point your finger at yourself and not at others, this gives you control over yourself and calmness in a situation, where otherwise self-control becomes problematic.

  Dalai Lama

  Self, Giving, Over You

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• If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Peace, Believe, Relaxation

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• Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Peace, Materialism

  "Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way".

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• What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Pertinent, Restraint, Remains

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.28, Vintage

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• The thing to do is to keep your mind when the world around you is losing theirs.

  Warren Buffett

  Mind, Relax, World

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• The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Patience, Philosophical

  "Living Like Benjamin: Making Dreams Come True". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (p. 143), November 1, 2007.

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• Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world.

  Patience Strong

  Heart, Relax, World

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• I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.

  John Wesley

  Perfect, Spirit, I Can

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.784

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• My focus is on always trying to treat the inevitable highs and lows of life with the same blissful, calm energy.

  Kordell Stewart

  Always Trying, Focus, Energy

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• He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

  B. C. Forbes

  Faith, Confidence, Courage

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• When we speak of a calm state of mind or peace of mind, we shouldn't confuse that with an insensitive state of apathy. Having a calm or peaceful state of mind doesn't mean being spaced out or completely empty. Peace of mind or a calm state of mind is rooted in affection and compassion and is sensitive and responsive to others.

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Compassion, Peaceful

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• In the calmness of the walk, horse and rider can find the time to think and to prepare the quality of the following trot and canter.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Horse, Thinking, Quality

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• Retain a calm heart, sit like a turtle, walk swiftly like a pigeon, and sleep like a dog

  Li Ching-Yuen

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

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• We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now

  Eckhart Tolle

  Rocks, Serenity, Mindfulness

  Eckhart Tolle (2013). “Guardians of Being: Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs and Cats”, p.62, New World Library

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• One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Patriotic, Light

  Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Addresses, Messages and Speeches, 1897-”

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• Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Grandeur

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• Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

  Leigh Hunt

  Night, Mind, Comfort

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• The thing about the intuition is that there's always a calmness to it, if it says yes to us or even if it says no. It's always very calm and a feeling of wisdom comes with it.

  Echo Bodine

  Feelings, Intuition, Calm

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

  James Anthony Froude

  Science, Opponents, Calm

  James Anthony Froude (2011). “Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881”, p.244, Cambridge University Press

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• Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.

  Andrew Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

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• Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Aggravating

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