- We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can’t relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, and unbiased. Pema Chödron
- “Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!”
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Mehmet Murat ildan
- “Whenever you are angry, take a beautiful object in your house and smash it to pieces. The pity you feel for what you have done is silly compared to what you are doing to your mind: taking a sacred moment to be alive and desecrating it by being angry.”
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Kamand Kojouri
- You can’t force raging water to be calm. You have to leave it alone and let it return to its natural flow. Emotions are the same way. @Thibaut
- “Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax.”
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Bryant McGill,
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
- “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.”
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Prem Jagyasi
- Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear. Buddha
- “The poses are learnt in Yoga Practice. Calmness and serenity is learnt in Meditation. Through this learning process, the journey of life full of love, compassion, kindness, gratitude is unlocked.”
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Purvi Raniga
- “To be wise means to know when to stay silent.”
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Kamand Kojouri
- “Happiness is the inner perception of calmness, tranquility and joy.”
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Debasish Mridha
- “Water was calmness and tranquility, but it was the rage of a storm as well.”
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F.C. Yee,
The Shadow of Kyoshi
- In dealing with fools you must adopt the following philosophy: they are simply a part of life, like rocks or furniture. Robert Greene
- “The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.”
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Jules Renard
- “- Zniszczę kapitalizm! Słyszysz? Zniszczę każdego jednego kapitalistę! A zacznę od ciebie, psie, jak nam nie pomożesz z bombą! (…)- Myślałem nad jedną rzeczą – powiedział Allan.- Jaką? – spytał Stalin ze złością.- Że może wziąłbyś i zgolił te wąsy?”
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Jonas Jonasson,
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
- Being confident and outspoken is overrated. Being present and calm is underrated. Maxime Lagacé
- If you feel offended about something, you haven’t been meditating enough. If you feel the need to defend yourself, or justify your opinion, you haven’t been meditating enough. If you can’t take joy in sitting under a tree on a beautiful day, you haven’t been meditating enough. Thibaut (See also: meditation quotes)
- “Patience Is Not the Ability to Wait: Patience is not the ability to wait. Patience is to be calm no matter what happens, constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities, and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting.”
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Roy T. Bennett,
The Light in the Heart
- The beauty of Zen is found in simplicity and tranquility, in a sense of the all-embracing harmony of things. Thich Thien-An
- “Patience, more than the ability to bear pains or endure waiting, is to be calm no matter what happens – constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities – and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting.”
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Roy T. Bennett
- “Tum daulat ki Kya baat karte hoMaine gareeb ko aksar pur sukoon dekha hai”
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Mehnaz Ansari,
A Study of Personality Characteristics and Values of Secondary School Teachers in Relation to Their Classroom Performance and Students’ Likings
- “One cannot skip time, but only transcend it through innumerable memories that exemplifies human understanding.”
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Sachin Kumar Puli
- At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it. Thich Nhat Hanh
- “When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority – at least of indifference”
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Ian Fleming,
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
- “Always ask yourself: “What will happen if I say nothing?”
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Kamand Kojouri
- “Calm yourself child”
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Jordan Leigh Bookhart
- “When Geoffrey’s not anxious, he radiates calmness, which probably means he sees more things and finds more things than other people do. It makes him open to new things too.”
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Terry Pratchett,
The Shepherd’s Crown
- “The fact is, inner peace isn’t something that comes when you finally paint the whole house a nice shade of cream and start drinking herbal tea. Inner peace is something that is shaped by the wisdom that ‘this too shall pass’ and is fired in the kiln of self-knowledge…”
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Tania Ahsan,
The brilliant book of calm: Down to Earth Ideas for Finding Inner Peace in a Chaotic World
- “I am always safe.I am protected by God who cares for me day and night.God’s power is infinitely greater than any power to the contrary.The angels are around me, keeping me safe, and whispering good things into the ears of my friends and enemies.There are many, passed-over loved ones (even those I do not know) who watch over me and pray for me.I have a purpose on Earth and God will help me to fulfil it.I release my fears. I am at peace.”
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Donna Goddard,
Love’s Longing
- Calm is a superpower. Brené Brown
- “Rushing into action, you fail.Trying to grasp things, you lose them.Forcing a project to completion,you ruin what was almost ripe.Therefore the Master takes actionby letting things take their course.He remains as calm at the end as at the beginning.He has nothing,thus has nothing to lose.What he desires is non-desire;what he learns is to unlearn.He simply reminds peopleof who they have always been.He cares about nothing but the Tao.Thus he can care for all things.”
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Lao Tzu,
Tao Te Ching