Calm Quotes

When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority – at least of indifference

Ian Fleming

I didn’t think it was possible — but this situation has managed to get worse.” “But you’re so calm,” she observed.“That’s usually when you can tell everything has gone to shit.

G.A. Aiken

My calm is like the tides: never at rest.

Marty Rubin

be the calm eye of the storm where nothing phases you, focus on your centre to remain balanced, let your life flow like a stream of wind

Jay Woodman

Savour a slow-paced contented life.

Fennel Hudson

You have to be the right type for calm waters. For some, dead calm is inner peace, for others it's the doldrums.

Daniel Glattauer

I believe I've come to understand something. Love isn't always big and dramatic. It's big, it's deep, but it's also quiet and calm.

Ashlyn Macnamara

[D]espite her alternative leanings, it turned out Crystal was not particularly psyco-babbly or airy-fairy or tree-huggy, as one might have expected.In fact, the first thing she did was write a list. She said writing lists helped calm her down when she was stressed about anything because it put problems in order. You can look at a list of things and see how you can tackle each one separately without feeling sick about it, she said. Whereas if they all just stayed jumbled in your mind in one great bit sticky ball you never got to consider them individually. She actually spoke a lot of sense for someone with toe rings and a Chinese tattoo.

Sarah-Kate Lynch

The new disease of our age is being OK doing everything at exactly the same time.

Nigel Cumberland

The storm before the calm.

Cameron Conaway

And here I am sitting again, yes, sitting again by this faithful lamp, feeling indescribably serene and unhurried. I shall travel this day's path quite calmly and just take a little holiday—my eyes and head are slightly overstressed and overstrained. One must have the patience to do a little less.

Etty Hillesum

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

The calming sea reaches out to me. Inviting me to its pure serenity."-Elizabeth's Quotes (inspired by a Pablo Neruda quote "I need the sea because it teaches me.")

Elizabeth E. Castillo

Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all fused together. Joley seemed as wild and turbulent s the sea, yet beneath her fiery passion, at the very core of her, she was as forceful and strong and as constant as the deepest ocean currents. Ilya seemed as calm as a windless sea, yet beneath the surface smoldered a volcano of such explosive magnitude, his power could easily sweep everything from his path. Together they completed each other, his melody and hers merging together into a single, perfect harmony.

Christine Feehan

Well, best to remain vigilant. It’s when everything is calm that you need to be most alert.

Brandon Sanderson

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

Niki De Saint Phalle

Claire's face looking pretty and serene, as if she were gifted with a madness that left her ignorant of worry.

R.J. Lawrence

You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.

Pema Chödrön

The enormous vermilion sun was dropping toward the sea, its reflected glow making a blazing path across the water to the very beach, where the last ripple was spangled with garnets. Otherwise, the sea was periwinkle purple, spilling and whispering and sidling with an easy going prattle of foam round the steeper rocks.

L.M. Boston

At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.

Veronica Roth

Calm down, Think different, Find your way ...

Arash Pakravesh

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

Jalaluddin Rumi

A calm water is like a still soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Radiate peace. Who knows? The peace you spread may create the only restful place in your environment.

Stella Payton

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

John Bunyan

...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...

John Geddes

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.

Steven Herrick

The forefront is not the arena of winners, stay where you are, wherever you are, when its your time, you'll speed off like a psycopath.

Michael Bassey Johnson

The brain is a pleasure seeking machine. Once you teach it, through meditation, that abiding calmly in the present moment feels better than our habitual state of clinging l, over time, the brain will want more and more mindfulness.

Dan Harris

Calm yourself and you calm your storm.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You can be justified in attacking someone, physically or verbally, but the satisfaction it brings is limited; it often leaves you with a bad feeling in the long run and gets you more involved with someone you'd like to stay away from.

Michael I. Bennett

When we first wake up every morning, there’s a calm in our minds. The challenge is to keep it there all day.

Ron Baratono

Being crazy, for the rest of us, is a form of sanity.

Dave Matthes

Sometimes there is no time to wait for the sea to calm down! If you have to reach your target, let your voyage start and let the storm be your path!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Can you see a serene island in the middle of a stormy ocean? And the wise man is that calm island!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Relax and be refreshed.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is better to be still than to speak when you are angry.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep calm. You have the forest in your blood.

Nenia Campbell

Reaction timeTouch the underside of a penny you find on the streetDoesn't feel any different unless you close your eyesI can taste the copper in my mouth nowseeping from between my teethThere's an explanation I'm sureall this bloodit's from all the times I held the glass too closeAnd forgot to tip the dancerA storm just passedand like every other one that came before itI was left unharmedThe dogs are all barking and the catshiding in the basementAnd the sky is colored that bright yellow glowmakes it feel like you're wearing sunglassesthat you can't take offWherever you are nowit's not herebecause I missed itI missed the showI missed the curtain callAnd forever more I am cursedlike a blanket without a body to keep warm

Dave Matthes

I didn't recognize it as such then, because I was only thirteen years old, but later I found it a bit ironic that my first time seeing a woman in all her form and glory and saggy drug-tainted tits, arrived at the same exact time as my first introduction to death.

Dave Matthes

When the truth finally catches up to you, don't be a hero and run.

John le Carré

You stayed strong in those moments of your life. You were alone. You battled loneliness. And you somehow discovered your inner calm and survived!Now you deserve the happiness that you have been denying yourself for so long. Enjoy the moment. You are getting closer to realising your dreams!

Avijeet Das

Almost everything that I've ever worried about has never happened ..

Ian Tucker

God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing conquers the chaos around me like the calm assurance that I am at peace with God.

Ron Brackin

When problems come, remain calm in two cases. One when you know you can solve them so smile; second when you know you can’t so be silent.

Vikrmn

Never allow opinions of others to disturb your inner tranquillity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

People will drive by their high school ten years down the road, just so they can pretend that thinking "not much has changed" is actually true. When really, everything has changed. The air smells the same, but the roads have cracked more. The roads have cracked so much they now look like the skin on a crocodile's back. And all the fields, green in the summers, golden in the autumns, have all been paved over with new reasons to never come back.

Dave Matthes

...ya can't get to Nevada on five bucks and a bad heart...

Dave Matthes

To all the boys, for when you become men: you'll leave women all throughout your life because they're holding you back, and even after she's gone she'll still weigh you down. To all the women: stay away from us men. We don't know anything about you, despite what we try to convince you of.

Dave Matthes

You know one day, you're going to look back on these days. And everyone you went to high school with will either be getting married to each other, shitting out kids, or dropping dead like flies," when she spoke, Miss Jenson sighed at the end of every few words; she must have been narrating her own thoughts she might have otherwise kept to herself, "and everything you never did, you'll never be able to even try.

Dave Matthes

...people who don't live at least a little bit in fear, have nothing left to live for.

Dave Matthes

Find a calm lake and wait for the twilight in silence! There, existence will visit you with all its magnificence! The existence of the Existence can best be felt in the presence of dimness and in the absence of crowds and noises!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Patience isn’t simply waiting, it is caring enough about the situation and those involved to remain calm and courteous throughout the wait.

Richelle E. Goodrich

The ability to stay calm and focused in the midst of change is what distinguishes great leaders from those just collecting a paycheck.

Todd Stocker

Life itself is the best (and the only) timekeeper.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

When we observe the flow of our breathing, we transcend our thoughts and are able to bring mind and body into harmony with each other. Thus, we create calm.

Christopher Dines

Nothing else has the power to calm, comfort, and care for you better than home.

Richelle E. Goodrich

The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits;- on the French coast the lightGleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.

Matthew Arnold

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