32817. “There were both desolations and calm compassions in this Jesus of Nazareth” ― Walter Wangerin Jr., Jesus April 7, 2021
32816. “One cannot skip time, but only transcend it through innumerable memories that exemplifies human understanding.” ― Sachin Kumar Puli April 7, 2021
32815. “By staying calm, you invite others to stay calm; by panicking, you provoke others to panic! You see, you can design the world by designing yourself!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan April 7, 2021
32814. “There is peace in the present when one’s aware of how to manage what works for them and what drains them with a calm mind.” ― Sachin Kumar Puli April 7, 2021
32813. “Emotions are like water, turning opaque when disturbed, yet transparent when still. As mindfulness calms our emotions, we can peer into their depths and see our overshadowing spiritual values reflected on the surface.” ― Michael Benner, Fearless Intelligence: The Extraordinary Wisdom of Awareness tags: calm, emotion, eq, equanimity, mindfulness, tranquil, water1 likesLike April 7, 2021
32812. “For those few stolen minutes, she found she could let go, second by second, of everything that haunted her until her mind was empty as a scoured bowl and all she knew was flavor on her tongue, air against her face, the small, dazzling details of her scrap of world.” ― Marisa de los Santos, I’ll Be Your Blue Sky April 7, 2021
32787. “How does one know you’ve “made it”? You no longer feel like you have anything to prove to anyone. You have no regrets or resentments from the past, anger that you’re working from. No people you want revenge on or songs you want to sing in order to finally speak your mind. Instead, you work from a place of wanting to do the work only, without any attachment to the outcome.” ― Charlotte Eriksson, Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself: growing up is a wonderful thing to do April 6, 2021
32786. “I drank because it was lovely and I needed a calm to understand the reality.” ― Dominic Riccitello April 6, 2021
32784. “Sometimes, it is necessary to quiet the mind in order to be able to hear. How can we tune into what is going on outside of ourselves, if it is drowned out by what is going on inside of ourselves? Find your stillness, find your calm, and listen. Allow the universe speak to you.” ― Akiroq Brost April 6, 2021
32782. “Perusing for personal peace in a placid place pondering the possibilities of potentially possessing permanent patience and perseverance” ― Andrew Edward Lucier, Awakenigma Allegory Anomalous April 6, 2021
32781. “Somehow he seems to understand everybody…He calms people. You all know that. He is calm itself, and the calm stays even when he has left. He doesn’t just jolly people up. After he is gone, they are somehow much better—as if life was still worth havin’.” ― Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd’s Crown April 6, 2021
32780. “Staying on the kinder side of a situation even in our minds is a much calmer place.” ― Ron Baratono April 6, 2021
32779. “I thought I could avoid continually crashing, but as it turns out, it’s unavoidable. Even on the calmest day, the ocean still rolls into the beach and pulls pebbles out to sea.” ― Rebekah Crane, The Upside of Falling Down April 6, 2021
32777. “By contrast, I feel rather calm, as if I have swallowed the eye of the storm.” ― Chantel Acevedo, The Distant Marvels April 6, 2021
32776. “Control your vibrations to be the master of the own harmony.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem April 6, 2021
32774. “Life is sometimes like an anxious lover who simply needs your sensuality to calm down.” ― Lebo Grand April 6, 2021
32773. “[W]hat is important is neither pleasure nor pain, success nor failure, what is important is to understand that neither of them have any importance whatsoever. This understanding calls for peace, calm and serenity.” ― Jean Klein, Be Who You Are April 6, 2021
32772. “Clearing clutter—be it physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual—brings about ease and inspires a sense of peace, calm, and tranquility.” ― Laurie Buchanan, PhD April 6, 2021
32771. “We’re desperate for peace because it comes to us so rarely, and when it does, it seems to evaporate at the very moment that it draws near us. But that is peace based on circumstances that are as fleeting as the peace that comes with them, where the peace that comes with God makes everything else flee that draws near it.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough April 6, 2021
32770. “Eternity is not the inexhaustible sum of all the centuries, quite the contrary —it must surely be this absence of time. Absolute calm (which can be more than a little dull!).” ― José Eduardo Agualusa, Nação Crioula April 6, 2021
32768. “Perseverance is the mother who snuggles her children when they are impatient. Keep calm, everything will be solved. Keep persisting, go ahead.” ― Alan Maiccon April 6, 2021
32767. “The brevity of life is the calmness of a courageous soul.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita April 6, 2021
32766. “The more your heart is afraid, the more your face has to be calm. If others can’t figure you out, they won’t easily make moves. Who would be like you, and wear their emotions on their sleeves? -4th Prince” ― Tong Hua, Bu Bu Jing Xin/步步惊心 April 6, 2021
32765. “There’s something demanding about the stillness of the night; as if it knows our need for rest and demands that we have it. And if I impale the stillness with the incessant noise and raucous clamor of a mind ever ill at rest and in doing so I refuse to let the night bring what it does, the night will remain still but my soul will not.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough, LPC April 6, 2021
32764. “I skipped a stone on the glass-like surface of a sleepy lake this morning. And I watched the ripples roll out from the stone’s impact until their energy abated and they fell smooth as was the rest of the lake. And as it become smooth again, I thought that one of the greatest things I could ask of God would be to grant me the gift of a soul with such inner calm that it would smooth out every ripple from every stone that Satan could ever throw into it.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough April 6, 2021
32763. “He looked out across the field. He seemed to have forgotten where he was, and for a while Larry rocked, bats fluttering over his view and crickets chirping in the monkey grass along the edge of the porch and his mother’s wind chime jingling, delicate notes too tender to be metal, more like soft bone on wire; he’d always thought the chime sounded like a skeleton playing a guitar, and for a time they sat together on the porch and watched the sun scald the sky red and the trees black.” ― Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter April 6, 2021
32762. “The building frustrations we put ourselves through, in our mind, have to do with people, places or things. If we lean into these thoughts with kindness and calm, when situations arise we’re able to demonstrate true wisdom instead of losing our temper.” ― Ron Baratono April 6, 2021
32761. “I always feel calm and peace; whenever, I rely upon my patience.” ― Ehsan Sehgal April 5, 2021
32758. “Learn to embrace the peace and quiet in your mind. Don’t throw yourself into a situation that caused you frustration and anger weeks ago. Let it go. Today you have calm and today you should enjoy it.” ― Ron Baratono April 5, 2021
32756. “During our wilderness journey, the Lord offers us spiritual renewal. He calls us into sacred rest. It is a safe place of comfort. A peaceful haven. A sanctuary for our soul.” ― Dana Arcuri, Sacred Wandering: Growing Your Faith In The Dark April 5, 2021
32754. “I was content to shape the quiet into the structures I wanted.” ― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong April 5, 2021
32751. “The great seas teach us that if we relax, we can float and survive. If we panic, we drown and die.” ― Rajesh`, Random Cosmos April 5, 2021
32749. “If you don’t fix the problems of your past and future, you may lose the joy of the present. You may become susceptible to falling for alcohol, drugs or other forms of intoxicants to calm your mind and to be able to live in the present.” ― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness April 5, 2021
32748. “Luckily, I have music and books to calm the pandemonium in my head.” ― Maude Julien, The Only Girl in the World April 5, 2021
32745. “You flounder through life, struggling desperately so you won’t drown, even though you would float if you’d just relax.” ― Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket: The Complete Collection April 5, 2021
32732. “As individuals, we hardly have any control over the world. At best, what we can do is try controlling ourselves.” ― Dr Prem Jagyasi April 5, 2021
32730. “Rather than labeling our destination as unreachable and fretting about it from a distance, we need to calm down and slow down to preserve our energy so that we can eventually reach it.” ― Dr Prem Jagyasi April 5, 2021
32729. “We can train our minds by selecting the information that makes us calm, removes our doubts and helps us focus more intensely on our aims.” ― Prem Jagyasi April 5, 2021
32719. “Yoga teaches me to be patient and keep practicing. It all happens when the body learns to keep right balance, with right strength when mind learns to be calm in most uncomfortable position and breath is constant.” ― Purvi Raniga April 5, 2021
32718. “Sometimes, when we least expect it, energy moves like a tornado, in directions we don’t expect and that can feel negative. Our plan and harmony are disrupted, and then the question becomes, what do we do? The natural reaction when something happens that’s unplanned is to panic or “fight the energy.” But that’s exactly the type of action you don’t want to take, because it’s in exact opposition to the harmony we’re aiming to achieve. So what can we do instead? There’s only one answer: accept it. Pause, take a deep breath, and trust that everything that happens is in your best interests.” ― Alan Philips, The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential April 5, 2021
32717. “But Charlie is more than a trip. She’s a sparkler, firecracker, a fistful of gun powder. Marco is my calm, Mom is my home, Nana is my conscience, but Charlie is my wide-open sky, my free-dancing, stargazing wild rumpus.” ― Christina Lauren (author) April 5, 2021