Calm famous quotes
03-26-2025
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Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
-- Ajahn Brahm -
As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.
-- Al Oerter -
Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.
-- Alan Cohen -
There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.
-- Alan Watts -
Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.
-- Alexander Payne -
Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
-- Alexander Pope -
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
The only prerequisites to leadership are that you remain positive, calm, and open-minded.
-- Alexis Hunter -
I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
Don't say anything. Just act cool," I whispered. Mavkel started to shiver. "Like this?" it asked. "No, I mean act calm." Mavkel stopped shivering.
-- Alison Goodman -
My faith is the reason I run - it calms my heart and makes everything feel like a lift. My speed is definitely a gift from Him, and I run for His glory. Whatever I do, He allows me to do it.
-- Allyson Felix -
Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.
-- Amy Ephron -
Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.
-- Andre Kostelanetz -
Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths
-- Andrew Harvey -
I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.
-- Angelina Jolie -
True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.
-- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury -
A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .
-- Antonin Artaud -
Dealing with corruption and staying calm is a talent most of us in India have mastered and learnt to live with.
-- Arshad Warsi -
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.
-- Bernard Pivot -
You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm.
-- Bill Buford -
Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.
-- Bill Hybels -
Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
-- Billy Corgan -
That's definitely a part of who Superman is and definitely who Clark on the farm is. It translates to how calm he is. I feel like I'm pretty calm most of the time and relaxed, which gives presence to the character.
-- Brandon Routh -
When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.
-- Brian Tracy -
So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
-- Bryan Procter -
Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.
-- Bryn Terfel -
How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.
-- Carl Jung -
I believe a calm dog is a happy, obedient dog that won't get into trouble.
-- Cesar Millan -
La' , tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute , Luxe, calme et volupte . There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content.
-- Chin-Ning Chu -
I tried to hold on to this compassion, sensing its preciousness, but even as I reached to grasp it, it dissipated into wisps. No revelation can endure unless it is bolstered by a calm pure mind- and I'm afraid I didn't possess that.
-- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -
I had a turnover and three missed shots down the stretch. I just have to make sure I calm my nerves.
-- Chris Bosh -
A samurai must remain calm at all times even in the face of danger.
-- Chris Bradford -
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.
-- Christina Rossetti -
Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.
-- Christy Turlington -
The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed.
-- Confucius -
I loved him, but I also realized how calm my life was without him.
-- Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry -
Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
-- Czeslaw Milosz -
If you become more concerned for the welfare of others, you will experience a sense of calm, inner-strength, and self confidence.
-- Dalai Lama -
A calm mind is good for our physical health, but it also enables us to see things more realistically.
-- Dalai Lama -
When our mind is calm, we’re better able to find peace of mind and live a joyful life.
-- Dalai Lama -
Lendl has remained throughout as calm as the proverbial iceberg.
-- Dan Maskell -
Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism.
-- Dee Dee Myers -
Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down
-- Dennis Eckersley -
Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.
-- Dmitri Mendeleev -
I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them
-- Don Meyer -
There is no more off-leash reliable, calm, sophisticated, go-with-you-anywhere dog than a trained sheepdog.
-- Donald McCaig -
I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.
-- Donna VanLiere -
She went crazy with a calm face, justifiably so.
-- Douglas Coupland -
As I've gotten older, I've really wanted to find more balance and calm.
-- Drew Barrymore -
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.
-- Edwidge Danticat -
The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.
-- Eliot Spitzer -
But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.
-- Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth -
There is not enough tea in the world to calm me.
-- Elizabeth May -
Comfort food is the food that makes us feel good – satisfied, calm, cared for and carefree. It’s food that fills us up emotionally and physically. … Finding comfort in food is a basic human experience.
-- Ellie Krieger -
The water is calm, but the currents pull beneath the surface. Though they can’t be seen, they have the power to drag cats to their deaths.
-- Erin Hunter -
Love is at the Center of our being, and the calm, continuous pulsations of life are governed by Love.
-- Ernest Holmes -
This is not a problem. I’m making everybody very calm, distracted by my bad results and then I’m going to shoot. One good result and I’m coming back. This is a distraction, it’s the calm before the storm,
-- Ernests Gulbis -
You don't have to shout from the mountaintops. Sometimes power comes in a soft, calm, compassionate way, like a quiet warrior.
-- Faith Hunter -
I like it when you're under the ocean, and all you can feel is calm
-- Farrah Fawcett -
I have always been very calm on the outside.
-- Fernando Alonso -
pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.
-- Fiona Apple -
One's ships come in over a calm sea.
-- Florence Scovel Shinn -
The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
You could at least complain,†I say. “I adore complaining. It calms the nerves.
-- Franny Billingsley -
Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven
-- Gary Oldman -
The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.
-- George Gissing -
To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.
-- Gillian Flynn -
Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.
-- Gordon Lightfoot -
With the coming of spring, I am calm again.
-- Gustav Mahler -
After that one fitnah, every time it calms down in one place, it starts somewhere else.
-- Hamza Yusuf -
When you are calm, quiet and sensitive then you can expand. But when you are irritated, phobic, fearful, insensitive, and neurotic, you can't achieve anything.
-- Harbhajan Singh Yogi -
To be calm is the highest achievement of the best of what you have.
-- Harbhajan Singh Yogi -
Anxiety is extremely contagious, but so is calm.
-- Harriet Lerner -
The age of the proof is in decline, it is the hour of 'witness' that is coming, hour of the 'marturioa', very calm and very complete: a hope which seems close to being realised.
-- Henri de Lubac -
The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Treat God like a dangerous loony - keep him calm and stay on his good side.
-- Herb Gardner -
When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious -- they habitually render physical calm and deep insight.
-- Hildegard of Bingen -
Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away.
-- Holly Golightly -
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
-- Horace -
Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.
-- Horace -
Peace comes not by establishing a calm outward setting so much as by inwardly surrendering to whatever the setting.
-- Hubert Van Zeller -
What I loved about breast-feeding was that bond of one-on-one time. The serotonin that's released calms you down and connects you to the baby.
-- Isla Fisher
