Calm Quotes

She was impressed by its simplicity and its seriousness, and the rage she had cultivated with so much love for so many days faded away on the spot.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

She looked at the last thing she had written and she felt calm. Then she crossed the words out vehemently, scribbling until even the shape of the sentence was destroyed.

~ Helen Oyeyemi

A man of calm is like a shady tree.People who need shelter come to it.

~ Toba Beta

Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't?

~ Lenore Skenazy

Silent is an anagram of listen.

~ Johnny Rich

Usually when I enter a bookstore, I feel immediately calm. Bookstores are, for me, what churches are for other people. My breath gets slower and deeper as I peruse the shelves. I believe that books contain messages I am meant to receive. I’m not normally superstitious, but I’ve even had books fall from shelves and land at my feet. Books are my missives from the universe.

~ Laurie Horowitz

In times of turbulence, we must keep calm and be patient.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The only order in the universe is just a cycle of calm and chaos.

~ Toba Beta

The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the best option is to sit back, relax and listen to a cool music, while watching them pack out of your life, and that's when you feel the intense release from the pit of hell.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm.

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

Whatever you value, it becomes your sun! If you value a calm night, your own sun will rise with the sunset on the horizon!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Calm sailing doesn't come from calm waters, it comes from having a good navigator; a good crew and a good vessel.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

It stood calm against the suburban storm raging around it. The thunder screamed across the sky, it slapped the clouds into a heated turmoil that flew towards the south.

~ J.d. Stroube

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

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

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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

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

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

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

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

...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

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

~ Dave Matthes

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

Never allow opinions of others to disturb your inner tranquillity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

~ Ron Brackin

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.

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

~ Ian Tucker

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

~ John Le Carré

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

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

Keep calm. You have the forest in your blood.

~ Nenia Campbell

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

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Relax and be refreshed.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

~ Dave Matthes

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