Calm Quotes

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

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

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

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

~ Steven Herrick

...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

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

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

~ Stella Payton

A calm water is like a still soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

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

~ Arash Pakravesh

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

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

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

~ Pema Chödrön

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

~ R.j. Lawrence

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

~ Niki De Saint Phalle

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

~ Brandon Sanderson

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

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

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 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

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

~ Nigel Cumberland

[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

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

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

Savour a slow-paced contented life.

~ Fennel Hudson

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

My calm is like the tides: never at rest.

~ Marty Rubin

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

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

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

~ Ernst Fischer

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

~ Xun Kuang

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

~ Nelson Mandela

People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do.

~ Tony Dungy

I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.

~ Canelo Alvarez

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.

~ Dmitri Mendeleev

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

~ Gustav Mahler

In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.

~ Jonathan Kozol

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

~ Ll Cool J

Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.

~ Billy Corgan