Calm Quotes - page 3

The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead. (Margaret Mead)
I'm not always really calm, but I try not to get taken away by things that are incredibly transitory. View quote
Jennifer Beals
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy. View quote
Samuel Johnson
If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What's your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down. View quote
Emil Cioran
I was happy enough; I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged. View quote
Cesare Pavese
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman. View quote
Abigail Adams
The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present-they are real. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm. View quote
Erica Jong
When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy. View quote
Margaret Fuller
When I say "I fear" - don't let it disturb you, dearest heart. We all fear when we are in waiting-rooms. Yet we must pass beyond them, and if the other can keep calm, it is all the help we can give each other. (Katherine Mansfield)
They sicken of the calm who know the storm. View quote
Dorothy Parker
The reflected world is the conquest of calm. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
For the sake of calm in the country, I am ready to sacrifice my own sanity. View quote
Alexander Lukashenko
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation. View quote
Vannevar Bush
If only all the contradictory voices shouting inside my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care so long as they sang without dissonance. View quote
Ralph Ellison
A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom. View quote
Alfred de Vigny
Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
Here, in the bare dark face of night A calm unhurried eye draws sight -We see in what we think we fear The cloudings of our thought made clear. (Iain Banks)
Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
The soul of a true christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year; low and humble on the ground, opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun's glory; rejoicing, as it were, in a calm rapture; diffusing around a sweet fragrancy; standing peacefully and lovingly, in the midst of other flowers round about; all in like manner opening their bosoms to drink in the light of the sun. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
And hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast and calm repose. View quote
Thomas Gray