Top 100 A Calm Quotes
#1. The mind of the experienced book reader is a calm mind, not a buzzing one. When it comes to the firing of our neurons, it's a mistake to assume that more is better.
Nicholas Carr
#2. Don't repress your needs and feelings. They fester, becoming corrosive and destructive in your relationships. In a calm, loving way, tell the people in your life what you need. Don't expect people to read your mind. It only leads to disappointment and frustration. Empower them to empower you!
Jillian Michaels
#3. Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it; by this strength heroes maintain a calm aspect and preserve their reason and liberty in the most surprising and terrible accidents.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#4. Everything sooner or later gets tired! A stormy sea gets tired and becomes a calm sea; a calm sea too gets tired and becomes a stormy sea! Everything sooner or later gets tired!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#5. Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill.
Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.
George Washington
#6. He noticed that he felt calmer now she was here, still in that grey dress with her dowdy hat, the air around her redolent with orchid oil. Perhaps all women in England had this effect. Perhaps they all smelled of flowers and exuded a calm and measured purpose. He couldn't remember.
Sara Sheridan
#7. Meditation really helps create not only a sense of balance ... but serenity and kind of a calm state of mind.
Eva Mendes
#8. I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.
JR
#9. Don't think about it. Think, and your actions will betray your thoughts. Don't feel bloodlust. Keep a calm heart. Move forward.
Mohiro Kitoh
#11. A calm mind can overcome storms,
Anonymous
#12. Universe is not a calm lake and therefore when you watch a calm lake you get a deceptive idea about the universe and you get a wrong perception of future!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#13. If we are living in a calm aftermath that isn't accompanied by repentance, confession, and listening, then we might as well tie ourselves to the banisters and wait for the second wave of the storm to come back around.
David Hampton
#14. 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
#15. And since Lucia had quickly learned during tbeir travels that the best kind of fire god was a calm fire god, she'd chosen not to speak a word of it to him.
Morgan Rhodes
#16. This was life on the surface of the sea. A calm, placid exterior that could soothe you into submission or swell up and kill you with no notice; beneath it always a dangerous world of life and death.
Kenneth Eade
#17. A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.
Eric Maisel
#18. Stop," Kincaid said in a calm voice. "Unclench."
"Unclench what?" Murphy demanded.
"Unclench your ass."
"Excuse me?"
"You're going to trip the beam. You need another quarter inch. Relax."
"I am relaxed," Murphy growled.
"Oh," Kincaid said. "Damn, great ass then.
Jim Butcher
#21. So let your latest grand ideas cool off for a while first. By all means, have as many great ideas as you can. Get excited about them. Just don't act in the heat of the moment. Write them down and park them for a few days. Then, evaluate their actual priority with a calm mind.
Jason Fried
#22. I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.
Jon Krakauer
#23. We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue.
Lambert Of Maastricht
#24. 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
#25. Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.
Kathleen McDonald
#26. A calm mind helps our human intelligence to assess the situation realistically.
Dalai Lama
#27. Finish that sentence, Raith, and we throw down, said Murphy in a calm, level voice.
Jim Butcher
#28. But the constant motion of the flames soon lulled him into a passive state where unrelated fragments of thoughts, sounds, images, and emotions drifted through him like snowflakes falling from a calm winter's sky.
Christopher Paolini
#29. Look forward to future years, if not with eager anticipation, yet with a calm reliance upon the power of good, wholly remote from despair.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#30. When they came it was as if the lord of the world had arrived, and had brought all the glories of its kingdoms along; and when they went they left a calm behind which was like the deep sleep which follows an orgy.
Mark Twain
#31. In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
John Ray
#32. It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.
Isaac Barrow
#33. He asked questions, he was interested and interesting, he rarely spoke of himself. He had a calm voice for the worst accidents and emergencies.
Zadie Smith
#34. To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
#35. Predator is not property," Grimm said in a calm, level tone. "She is not my possession. She is my home. Her crew are not my employees. They are my family. And if you threaten to take my home and destroy the livelihood of my family again, Commodore, I will be inclined to kill you where you stand.
Jim Butcher
#36. I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
Abigail Adams
#37. The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#39. Peace of mind is the basis of a healthy body and a healthy mind; so peace of mind, a calm mind, is very, very important.
Dalai Lama
#40. I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I feel in myself a superabundance of energy which finds no outlet in our quiet life.
Leo Tolstoy
#41. In the land of wild rivers, a calm river becomes either a god or a devil!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#42. As for my ideal type, I like girls who don't have powerful presence, and not self-centered. I'd like her to have a light skin, and a calm personality.
Yesung
#43. There should not be any sense of hurry or worry about this, just a calm, peaceful sense of reality. Let the Law work though, and express Itself in, the experience.
Ernest Holmes
#44. We're comfortable. He knows I love him. He can see it in my eyes, like I can in his. Not everything needs to be as you imagine. Passion can be a calm meadow just as much as a hurricane.
Marilyn Grey
#45. I was now privy to how a calm, average , peace-loving individual can suddenly get infected with a special kind of crazy. Higher reasoning is replaced with killer animal instincts.
Dan Skinner
#46. By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
Mahatma Gandhi
#47. Why exactly do you go to yoga classes? You're such a calm, well-balanced person, and a woman who knows what she wants. Aren't you wasting your time? My heart starts beating again. I don't answer. I simply smile and stroke his face.
Paulo Coelho
#48. Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.
Henepola Gunaratana
#49. Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
Horace
#50. She looked like a grown-up, a calm, controlled grown-up, and she was glad for that one mercy. No one would be able to judge from her exterior that she was falling apart on the inside or that she didn't feel mature at all.
Carol Oates
#51. In taking our marital arguments upstairs to avoid exposing the children to strife, we accidentally deprived them of chances to witness how two people who care about each other can work out their differences in a calm and reasoned way.
Po Bronson
#52. The minute we hit the air, you are surprisingly relaxed. All of your problems seem to go away. Your stomach doesn't drop. There's no falling sensation. It's just freeing. It's as close to flying as you'll ever get. A calm like you've never known before, and you don't want it to end.
Jessica Park
#53. 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
#55. If we rebuke our heart by a calm, mild remonstrance, with more compassion for it than passion against it and encourage it to make amendment, then repentance conceived in this way will sink far deeper and penetrate more effectually than fretful, angry, stormy repentance.
Francis De Sales
#56. Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits; a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#57. Out of the current confusion of ideals and and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.
Matthew B. Crawford
#58. Physical activity is the single most efficient strategy for completing the stress response cycle and recalibrating your central nervous system into a calm state. When people say, 'Exercise is good for stress,' that is for realsie real.
Emily Nagoski
#60. There is more to life than just surviving it. Inside each turbulence there is a calm
a sliver of light buried in the darkness.
Norman Ollestad
#62. Watching myself age is like watching an explosion far out in a calm sea.
Kate Llewellyn
#63. I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.
Sachin Tendulkar
#64. I hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help.
Courtney Thorne-Smith
#65. Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being.
Aldous Huxley
#66. I am convinced that a calm, quiet and harmonious interior can be as beneficial to health as a sensible diet and regular exercise
Kelly Hoppen
#67. There may be no trumpet sound or loud applause when we make a right decision, just a calm sense of resolution and peace.
Gloria Gaither
#69. There is a calm for you where men and women
Unroll the chill precision of moving feet.
Allen Tate
#70. I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, 'The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,' almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges.
Robert Pinsky
#71. In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish.
Mercedes Lackey
#73. And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its meaning, has broken over me like a wave and is ebbing away now, leaving me with a single, solid certainty. I know now.
Lauren Oliver
#75. Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.
Lemony Snicket
#77. While people are making wars, you make a calm walk in the wilderness. Stay away from the stupidities!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#78. Even through the haze of summer you can see the cleared pockets of land that were once forest, now logged into oblivion. They look like a disease, but to the north and west, the untouched hills are a calm reminder.
Victoria Aveyard
#79. Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.
Shirley Henderson
#80. The storms in our lives can best be handled through a sound thinking, a calm stance and a high spirits!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#81. An amber sunset, a flowing river, a snow capped mountain, a beautiful heart, a calm mind, deep eyes, the moon, the earth and the sky - they are all silent. It's the words that give them meaning, decipher their essence and share their message.
Rashmit Kalra
#83. My own philosophy is that one should share what wisdom he has, one should help others to help themselves and one should keep going despite heavy weather, for there is always a calm ahead.
L. Ron Hubbard
#84. A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#85. Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted after that was a breather and a calm and a quiet life, and they get us.
P. J. O'Rourke
#86. Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind
Dalai Lama
#87. When someone says something petty or nasty, one of those little passive-aggressive things that would usually just pick at me for days, my new response is not to shut the door and bitch to anyone who will listen. Now? The moment they say it? "What did you mean by that?" I ask in a calm voice. It
Shonda Rhimes
#88. I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.
Andrew Jackson
#89. Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
Bill Vaughan
#90. A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
Alfred De Vigny
#91. human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#92. Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.
Leigh Hunt
#94. Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#95. A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.
Eknath Easwaran
#96. We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
Zhuangzi
#98. I'm sick. It's true. It isn't going to go away. All my life, I've thought that if I just worked hard enough, it would. I've always thought that if I just pulled myself together, I'd be a good person, a calm person, a person like everyone else.
Marya Hornbacher
#99. He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age
Plato
#100. I've never been a calm, midrange type person.
Eddie Vedder
