Calmness Quotes - Page 9

• a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.

  Aidan Chambers

  Hurt, Sadness, Joy

  Aidan Chambers (1987). “Now I know: a novel”, Vintage

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• Stand upon the Atman, then only can we truly love the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Knowing, Perfect, Looks

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3104, Manonmani Publishers

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• I've just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday.

  Ellie Goulding

  Ideas, Someday, Peacefulness

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• I have a big job on my hands now, there is no mistaking that, but I feel as though I have calmness within myself. 
  (on being Manchester City manager)

  Stuart Pearce

  Jobs, Hands, Cities

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• I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned . . . than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason.

  Philippe Pinel

  Husband, Giving, Romance

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• And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while listening to opera on the radio, and to go that night to an Indian restaurant with a friend and be home by nine o'clock - these are enough. They are gifts.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Home, Night, Appreciate

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• Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Heart, Despair, Poverty

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• When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind - with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows
  the laws of God and can apply them?

  Florence Nightingale

  Home, Wind, Law

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.97, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Desire, Deeds

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• Fighting is all about calmness and relaxation. My appearance was all an illusion. My appearance is of a mad man, but I'm really calm and collected. Even though I'm fighting, I'm calm and relaxed as possible, despite my displays, because once you get excited, you can't fight at the highest level of your ability.

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Men, Mad

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• Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Character, Persons

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.

  Maria Jane McIntosh

  Beautiful, Sunday, Earth

  Maria Jane McIntosh (1847). “Two Lives: Or, To Seem and to be”, p.199

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• Rejoicing refers to moderation of spirit when the mind keeps itself in calmness under adversity and does not give indulgence to grief. Constant praying is the way of 'rejoicing perpetually', for by this means we ask from God alleviation in connection with all our distresses.

  John Calvin

  Grief, Mean, Adversity

  John Calvin “John Calvin's Bible Commentaries On St. Paul's Epistles To The Philippians, Colossians And Thessalonians”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• On every occasion of uneasiness, we should retire to prayer, that we may give place to the grace and light of God and then form our resolutions, without being in any pain about what success they may have. In the greatest temptations, a single look to Christ, and the barely pronouncing his name, suffices to overcome the wicked one, so it be done with confidence and calmness of spirit.

  John Wesley

  Pain, Prayer, Light

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.526

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• How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heartless, Cuffs, Muffins

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• Do not let the fame come near to you! Protect your freedom! Fame must be avoided so as to breathe freely! Stay in the shadow to work comfortably! Away from the crowds, in the heart of calmness, there is wonderful peace of mind that no fame can ever give you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Peace, Freedom, Heart

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• Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfill your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Self, Serenity, Desire

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.45, Manonmani Publishers

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• If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness.

  Peter Gallagher

  Over You, Feelings, Panic

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• Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen in a painting's line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? - and is the true effect of a good painting on the spectator one that makes at once for repose and energy, calmness and intensity, serenity and stir?

  Eli Siegel

  Artist, Color, Serenity

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• It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or too attention-seeking. In my paintings, I wish to create a spiritual remedy, similar to a comfortable armchair which provides rest from physical expectation for the spiritually working, the businessman as well as the artist.

  Henri Matisse

  Dream, Spiritual, Art

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• Find your centre and live in it.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Relax, Centre

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• Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace

  Hermann Hesse

  Light, Two, Perfection

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• Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.

  Andre Kostelanetz

  Should Have, Listening, Sound

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• I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.

  Stone Gossard

  Fitness, Self Esteem, Cancer

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• The goal of the Transcendental Meditation technique is the state of enlightenment. This means we experience that inner calmness, that quiet state of least excitation, even when we are dynamically busy.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Mean, Goal, Meditation

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