Calm Quotes

The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

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.

First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your time well is to gain a certain ability to maintain peace within yourself so that much can go on around you and you can stay calm inside.

Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.

My hours are peaceful centuries.

It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.

The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange.

If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!

I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.

Stillness is easy to maintain.

music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.

'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.

Happiness means quiet nerves.

Now close the windows and hush all the fields:If the trees must, let them silently toss.

Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.

There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.

I always get very calm with baseball.