Top 100 Quotes About Calm
#1. Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar! The will to neither strive nor cry, The power to feel what others give! Calm, calm me more! nor let me die Before I have begun to live.
Matthew Arnold
#2. Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!
Sean O'Casey
#3. There is a calm for you where men and women
Unroll the chill precision of moving feet.
Allen Tate
#4. A man who fails to love the Mass fails to love Christ. We must make an effort to 'live' the Mass with calm and serenity, with devotion and affection.
Josemaria Escriva
#5. When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#6. St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#7. We must get to the place of real solitude with Christ. He is our mountain-height and our sea-calm.
Oswald Chambers
#9. A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the propensities of the living - an anomaly on the face of the earth - being very calm, yet breathless.
Edgar Allan Poe
#10. And the man who remains calm inevitably takes command of a situation.
Hope Mirrlees
#11. Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is a wonderful moment.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#12. I did what I have been told to do by my queen. In so doing, I fell into a trap I couldn't escape. I still can't."
"The trap of LUUUUVVVV, I thought sarcastically. But he was too serious, too calm, to mock.
Charlaine Harris
#13. When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#14. While I was writing 'The Big Girls,' I had to take a big breath each morning and calm myself sufficiently to once again enter that world. But friends tell me that it is the only thing that really interests me. They say that I like to be upset.
Susanna Moore
#15. Calm down. If I wanted to hurt you, I wouldn't need this knife to do it.
Melissa Cutler
#16. But in real life, the ideal Parisian woman is calm, discreet, a bit remote, and extremely decisive.
Pamela Druckerman
#17. A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.
Mark Twain
#18. The second corpse sat up and then stood, clutching her belly. A man stepped into the frame, a gun in his hand, healing her by sucking the bullet from her guts. They argued, grew calm, parted peaceably.
James S.A. Corey
#20. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).
Vladimir Nabokov
#21. The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.
Plutarch
#22. 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
#23. She would only make me take my seat if I didn't act calm and Swiss about it all.
Bill Bryson
#24. To sit down means to calm down without rush and fuss, stop and reflect, analyze all pros and cons, count all possible merits and faults
Sunday Adelaja
#25. Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
Channing Pollock
#26. I miss my grandmother every day. I miss her vitality, her interest in the lives of others, her courage and determination, her perceptive wisdom, her calm in the face of all difficulties, her steadfast belief in the British people and above all her unstoppable sense of mischievous humour.
Prince Charles
#27. I'm easily starstruck. Seeing Buster Posey or any actor, anyone at a restaurant, for me I get really starstruck, so just trying to calm myself down and say, "This is where I belong. This is what I've prepared my whole life to be doing."
Tyler Beede
#28. One can feel calm and at ease. Just leave kids alone, please.
Vladimir Putin
#29. Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire."
~ Liberty Jones
Lisa Kleypas
#30. Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.
Vicki Harrison
#31. Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.
William Congreve
#32. My father taught me, in boxing, that when you - particularly when you get hit in the face for the first time - you're going to panic. That instead of panicking, just accept it. Stay calm. And any time anybody hits you, they always leave themselves open to be hit.
Rudy Giuliani
#33. As a writer, I will go down any dark alley, inch my way through the tightest crawl space, and feed on your every fear. I will take your sense of calm and tear it to shreds. - Horror Author Barbara Watkins
Barbara Watkins
#34. Heretofore my life has been calm as a summer's day; but who knows when winter storms may rise, and often I have thought that I was born to know wind and rain and lightning as well as peace and sunshine.
H. Rider Haggard
#35. The ability to stay calm and focused in the midst of change is what distinguishes great leaders from those just collecting a paycheck.
Todd Stocker
#36. The whole world seemed to be quiet and calm and I wanted to be the world and feel like that
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#37. You have an eating disorder if diet and food negatively impact your life and add stress where natural calm energy would usually be.
Scott Abel
#38. In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
John Milton
#39. Swallowing, he peered down at Noelle, floored by the sheer calm reflecting back at him. "You okay, babe?"
She rolled her eyes. "Of course. What do you think I am, a pansy-ass damsel who weeps at the first sign of trouble?
Elle Kennedy
#40. A red leaf danced from a branch like a dropping flame, down into the calm blue lake. A gust had broken it free. There was a cold bite in the wind.
It was now deep autumn in the mountains.
Aspen Matis
#41. Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves
Victoria Magazine
#42. For a hot second I actually want to hit him. Did he think it didn't kill me to watch her walk away? I pull in a calming breath. Calm. I'm always calm. "She threw down an argument I had no solution for.
Kristen Callihan
#43. The main factor in a penalty shootout is luck again. You need to stay calm and focussed but the biggest thing you need is luck.
Peter Shilton
#45. Acting like a man means developing a non-anxious presence that sees the big picture, remains calm in a crisis, and won't cave in under pressure. Godly men respond; they don't react.
James MacDonald
#46. Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent's movement.
Yip Man
#47. The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
Alexander Woollcott
#48. Face calm and composed, Kellan simply smiled. Taking that as an affirmative response, Tory twisted to face the elevator doors. Behind her back, Kellan flashed me a devilish smile, one that clearly said, Hell if I'm doing any of that.
S.C. Stephens
#49. Calm, focused, undistracted, the linear mind is being pushed aside by a new kind of mind that wants and needs to take in and dole out information in short, disjointed, often overlapping bursts - the faster, the better.
Nicholas Carr
#50. Just because life is full of craziness doesn't mean you must go crazy. You can experience outer chaos and still find inner peace. Nothing even needs to change outside of you for you to find calm inside of you. This inner calm is available at all times. Just breathe.
Karen Salmansohn
#51. Calm down, Ephraim. You seem really certain of what's possible and what's impossible, for a guy who's trying to convince me he has a magic wishing coin.
E.C. Myers
#52. 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
#53. I'm not always really calm, but I try not to get taken away by things that are incredibly transitory.
Jennifer Beals
#54. To thoughtful natures, events are like depth charges: the surface is calm, but the shock spreads further.
Amanda Craig
#55. Pray silently with simplicity every day to stay cool and calm in mind, composed and collected in heart; courageous and connected to own soul, to lay the way for a peaceful life.
Anuj
#56. When healing, the healer should be calm and detached. He should not be nervous, "overconcerned" or attached to the expected results. Otherwise, the projected pranic energy will not be released and will return to him.
Choa Kok Sui
#57. With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.
Michael Chabon
#58. 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
#59. Marriage is great. It'll calm you down - that and neutering.
Kevin Nealon
#60. Suddenly we have a baby who poops and cries, and we are trying to calm, clean up, and pin things together all at once. Then as fast as we learn to cope
so soon
it is hard to recall why diapers ever seemed so important. The frontiers change, and now perhaps we have a teenager we can't reach.
Polly Berrien Berends
#61. 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
#62. No season now for calm, familiar talk.
Homer
#63. I hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help.
Courtney Thorne-Smith
#64. The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.
Paul Fleischman
#65. Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths
Andrew Harvey
#66. And then a strange calm fell over her and the snow and limbs were no longer obstacles. In this moment she became a part of the forest and avoided pitfalls and roots with ease. She felt free as the howling winds and the birds of prey that trailed them.
Jennifer Silverwood
#67. I will find you another long-forgotten Queen Mab poem in no time. Depend on it. I refuse to let Cody or anyone else know more about English Literature than me. So calm yourself, Elfish, and let an expert take over.
Martin Millar
#68. But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
Emma Thompson
#69. I'm not flying to the moon. But when I've talked to people who have been up, you can tell it's really special because without fail a very special light comes into their eyes and they appear to be very fulfilled in some way and very calm.
Sarah Brightman
#71. We can't calm waves, but we can steer the ship.
Hayley Long
#72. Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#73. You're old. You're senile. You're too calm about this. Something must be wrong ... "
"Wonderful. I'll pull out my hair and chase butterflies around the room.
John Grisham
#74. How could the war have any semblance of reality when you found yourself sitting under a plane tree in a playground, in the provincial calm of an early afternoon?
Patrick Modiano
#75. Impatience is not the fastest way of getting to where your treasures are. It is the quickest way of by-passing them without even knowing. Keep calm; be patient!
Israelmore Ayivor
#76. Solitude is the biggest medicine for once peace, It makes your heart pure and calm.
Debolina Bhawal
#77. For myself, I'll trust what I believe when my mind is calm, rational, and at peace.
Evan Currie
#78. 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
#79. In strategy your spiritual bearing must not be any different from normal. Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased.
Miyamoto Musashi
#80. That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation.
Sandra Cisneros
#81. Watching myself age is like watching an explosion far out in a calm sea.
Kate Llewellyn
#82. All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know: Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm: Endless extinction of unhappy hates.
Matthew Arnold
#83. I was floating on a river of calm, a leaf on a current.
Laura Whitcomb
#84. God will find you," said the priest quietly. "Stay calm and do not flee from Him who has been seeking you before you even existed in your mother's womb.
Sigrid Undset
#85. It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.
Fiona Apple
#86. The calm troubled him; the fact that the physical absence of pain could elicit such a mental absence of panic was at once unnerving and rather fascinating.
V.E Schwab
#87. Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.
Charles Baudelaire
#88. You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind those colours there hides the final cataclysm.
Mark Rothko
#89. A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting.
Confucius
#90. PEACE DOES NOT MEAN TO BE IN A PLACE WHERE THERE IS NO NOISE, TROUBLE, OR HARD WORK. PEACE MEANS TO BE IN THE MIDST OF ALL THOSE THINGS AND STILL BE CALM IN YOUR HEART. THAT IS THE REAL MEANING OF PEACE.
Various
#91. Making good use of our limited time - the limited time from birth to death, as well as our limited time each day - is the key to developing inner steadiness and calm.
Pema Chodron
#92. River had never lost his cool, not since I'd know him. That was the thing about River. He was calm. Calm as a summer's day. Calm as a gentle nap in the sun. Even when girls were fainting and men were slitting their throats in front of you.
April Genevieve Tucholke
#93. My tweeting is cool and calm unless I am riled up about something and then I just surrender to the fury of my fingers.
Roxane Gay
#94. This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.
Charles Gounod
#95. Just because I don't feel calm, doesn't mean I'm not calm.
Penny Reid
#96. The storms inside uncoil
into sky held calm by far seeing eyes
Memories dressed in the translucent
trickery of the mind,
so as to wear life upon themselves,
give up their tired dance and run
into free frequency
Tamara Rendell
#97. By the time she yanked on her old jeans and a battered plaid flannel shirt, she felt almost normal. Calm, as she plugged in the coffee pot. But the nightmare was still very much on her mind, because it wasn't a dream ...
It was a memory.
Dani Harper
#99. A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.
Thomas Carlyle
#100. The new cosmic story emerging into human awareness overwhelms all previous conceptions of the universe for the simple reason that it draws them all into its comprehensive fullness. Who can learn what this means and remain calm?
Brian Swimme
