Calmness Quotes - Page 7

• I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my game plan, and try not to get overthrown.

  Dwight Gooden

  Games, Stay Calm, Trying

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• He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized by the shouts of the multitude, he must take his place with the members of that wretched crowd who shouted for two long hours, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" till truth, reason, and calmness were all drowned in noise.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Lonely, Truth, Two

  Frederick William Robertson (1867). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”, p.135

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• Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history ; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal to escape, his calmness in the face of death , and his contention that the perpetrator of injustice injures himself more than his victim, all fitted in perfectly with Stoic teaching. So did his indifference to heat and cold, his plainness in matters of food and dress, and his complete independence of all bodily comforts.

  Bertrand Russell

  Attitude, Teaching, Independence

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• It's like, imagine the ripples on top of an ocean. And I'm in a rowboat, reactively dealing with the waves and water coming into my boat. What I need to do is dive into the deeper solace, the calmness beneath the surface.

  Mehmet Oz

  Ocean, Water, Meditation

  "Look Who’s Meditating Now" By Irina Aleksander, www.nytimes.com. March 18, 2011.

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• Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

  Laozi

  Peace, Desire, Self Awareness

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• If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise-you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing clothes. Consequently, at that point you will be able to maintain your calmness of mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Death, Clothes, Mind

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• I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Fear, Loss, Shots

  FaceBook post by Sebastian Faulks from Apr 12, 2012

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• Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

  George Herbert

  Truth, Errors, Faults

  Jeremy Taylor, John Wheeldon, George Herbert (1768). “Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor”, p.107

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• These days, more than any other time, we are worried about our personal life, our private life. When we talk about our private life, it means our home, our body even. It seems that when we want to have calmness in this world, we make a wall around us. This gives us a very calm environment, and when we feel that somebody is intruding into that, it makes us very angry and we feel we have to do something about it.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Wall, Mean, Home

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, National Parks, Nostalgia

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is the door through which disease as well as healing enters. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill [...].The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Pain, Philosophical, Healing

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• I've come to some balance now and calmness. If anything happened to me and I got hit by a bus - I hope this doesn't happen, but if something happened - my body of work is something I could rest on. I don't feel, "Oh God, I have to hurry up . . ."

  Sandra Cisneros

  Balance, Body, Bus

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I'm representing the United States. And I'm representing the United States, and my office is representing the United States day after day in front of the court. And I think it's the right thing to do, to carry that out with some dignity and some respect for the process and respect for the institution. And so that led me to just, you know, move the dial a little bit in the direction of calmness.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Moving, Thinking, Office

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.

  Zhuangzi

  Worry, Sage, Ease

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• Keep cool and you will command everyone.

  Justinian I

  Calm, Tranquility, Command

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• I love to play, I love to dance, I love to party . . . I'm a liver. I think what I need to learn is how to find the calmness, the centeredness.

  Donna Karan

  Party, Thinking, Play

  Interview with Calvin Klein, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• Cats are peaceful and tranquil - they bring calmness with their serene personalities.

  Chris Evert

  Cat, Personality, Peaceful

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• To be world champion brings fame. The fame brings good things and bad things too. I try to take the good with calmness.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Champion, Trying

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• The moment before I jump is filled with anxiety and what-ifs. But then as soon as I enter the air, I'm filled with this calmness and that's the main attraction to it. That's why I do these death-consequence pursuits or arts.

  Dean Potter

  Art, Air, Anxiety

  Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com

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• [J]udges, therefore, should be always men of learning and experience in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness, and attention. Their minds should not be distracted with jarring interests; they should not be dependent upon any man, or body of men.

  John Adams

  Character, Men, Law

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.198

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• Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.

  Jeremy Collier

  Body, Leisure, Retribution

  Jeremy Collier (1720). “Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: Part III. ... By Jeremy Collier, M.A.”, p.31

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• All the great artists of the world slowly slowly start growing a quality of feminineness, grace, elegance, exquisiteness. A certain flavor of softness, relaxedness, calmness and quietness surrounds them. They are no longer feverish. What I am teaching here is really to turn the whole world feminine.

  Rajneesh

  Teaching, Artist, Grace

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• Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Spirit, Calm

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• I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.

  Moshe Dayan

  Long, Want, Calm

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