Calmness Quotes - Page 4

• Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.

  Katrina Kenison

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Prayer

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• Anxiety is the gap between now and later.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Anxiety, Fearless, Relax

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• Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Men, Animal, Generosity

  Leonid Andreyev (2007). “The Seven That Were Hanged”, p.168, Wildside Press LLC

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• Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

  Patanjali

  Yoga, Compassion, Meditation

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• She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

  Abraham Verghese

  Medicine, Feelings, Emergencies

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.42, Random House India

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• Everybody loves to talk about calmness and peace, whether in a family, national, or international context, but without inner peace how can we make real peace? World peace through hatred and force is impossible.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Hatred, Inner Peace

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.67, Shambhala Publications

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• When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity.

  Dale Carnegie

  Trying, Friendly, Poison

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.82, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Peace, Sorry, Unhappy

  Robert H. Schuller (2002). “The Be Happy Attitudes”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

  Oscar Wilde

  Cuffs, Muffins, Importance Of Being Earnest

  Charles Osborne, Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Novel for Serious People”, p.100, St. Martin's Press

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• I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

  Abigail Adams

  Life, Believe, Men

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.212

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• He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Time, Stupid, Hero

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• The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

  Mehmet Oz

  Opposites, Empathy, Lack Of Empathy

  "Q&A with Mehmet Oz: Don’t Let the Finance Crisis Become a Health Crisis". Interview with Anthony Tjan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2007.

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• It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

  Pope John XXIII

  Generosity, Catholic, Church

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• Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

  Alphonse Karr

  Haste, Essentials, Ingredients

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• When you have achieved a state of calmness and readiness, then you are ready to know, ready to understand in a deep way the dance between emptiness and appearance. Once you catch a glimpse of that dance, don't hang on to it. Just let it go, like your first glimpse of essence love.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Love, Dance, Essence

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche (2012). “Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation”, p.228, Random House

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• In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.

  Clarence Clemons

  Spiritual, Answers, Able

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• I sit beside my lonely fire
  And pray for wisdom yet:
  For calmness to remember
  Or courage to forget.

  Charles Hamilton Aide

  Lonely, Fire, Age

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• Calm seas never made a good sailor

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Sea, Sailor, Calm

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• Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

  Queen Victoria

  Events, Nerves, Calm

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• And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.

  William Wordsworth

  Law, Heat, Conflict

  William Wordsworth (1857). “The Earlier Poems of William Wordsworth: Corrected as in the Latest Editions. With Preface, and Notes Showing the Text as it Stood in 1815”, p.323

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• There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity.

  Angelina Grimke

  Heart, Men, Moral

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.102, Penguin

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• Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inner Peace, Useless

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Peace: The Words and Inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.89, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

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• No storm lasts forever no matter what it is. Nature builds calmness within its storms. That's true in our own lives as well. When you reach the zenith of where you are going in your life, or in a relationship; the only place you can go is down or up. That's the nature of this universe; a cyclical thing. The seasons, the moon; everything has a cycle to it.

  Wayne Dyer

  Moon, Forever, Storm

  Source: www.drwaynedyer.com

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• The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has to learn, first, to let it in and, second, how to do so. The first beginning of this is to remember. The second is to recognize the inward pull. For the rest, the stillness itself will guide and lead him to itself.

  Paul Brunton

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Learning

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• All the holy words you read and all the holy words you speak are as nothing if you do not act upon them.  Even if you read little and say little but live the right way, forsaking craving, hatred and delusion, you will know the truth and find calmness and will show others the path.

  Gautama Buddha

  Hatred, Words You Speak, Littles

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