- “The greatest happiness is to find a peaceful corner when you desperately in need of calmness!”
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Mehmet Murat ildan
- “The only order in the universe is just a cycle of calm and chaos.”
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Toba Beta,
Master of Stupidity
- “Peace doesn’t deny difficulty, but it has an inner calm and quietness even while enduring the difficulty.”
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Glenn C. Stewart
- “I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.”
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Anna Funder,
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
- The chaos you see outside is within you. It’s your own projection. When you’re calm from within, you cease to create chaos without. And even if the external chaos is there, it no longer affects you. The world is turbulent if you’re turbulent. It’s calm when you’re calm. @TheAncientSage
- People should learn how to just be there, doing nothing. Thich Nhat Hanh
- There are two things, to be and to do. Don’t think too much about to do – to be is first. To be peace. To be joy. To be happiness. And then to do joy, to do happiness – on the basis of being. Thich Nhat Hanh
- “Calmness is the language of a peaceful mind.”
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J.R. Incer,
Boost Your Brainpower 365
- “Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face.”
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Manoj Arora,
From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
- “You cannot wait for an untroubled world to have an untroubled moment. The terrible phone call, the rainstorm, the sinister knock on the door—they will all come. Soon enough arrive the treacherous villain and the unfair trial and the smoke and the flames of the suspicious fires to burn everything away. In the meantime, it is best to grab what wonderful moments you find lying around.”
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Lemony Snicket,
Shouldn’t You Be in School?
- “It stood calm against the suburban storm raging around it. The thunder screamed across the sky; it slapped the clouds into a heated turmoil that flew towards the south.”
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J.D. Stroube,
Caged in Darkness
- “I love writing in the sunshine ’till my head throbs and hiking in the woods ’till my feet hurt.”
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Kaylee Stepkoski
- “…I got to love solitude – to see the Moon rise and set – I had time to watch it trace the window square across the wall in silent grace…”
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John Geddes,
A Familiar Rain
- “Stay at peace with everyone you meet and hold no grudge with anyone for any reason.”
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Israelmore Ayivor,
Become a Better You
- “On the drive, I stick within sight of the water as it’s always had a calming effect on me. Something about imaging what lurks beneath its surface, in depths that can’t be seen, puts everything in perspective. It reminds me that we are all just small fish in a very big pond.”
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Melanie A. Smith,
All of Me
- “I used that black magical elixir as amulet against all bad things and thoughts for that day. On the other hand, it was a liquid talisman for everybody else, to save them from being strangled by me.”
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Mladen Đorđević,
Svetioničar – Vesnici oluje
- “The point of meditating is not to learn to sit quietly in a room. The point is to live that way in the world.”
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Chris Matakas,
My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
- “An accident is often caused by an attempt to prevent one.”
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “A calm water is like a still soul.”
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Lailah Gifty Akita
- Using order to deal with the disorderly, using calm to deal with the clamorous, is mastering the heart. Sun Tzu (The Art of War, Amazon book)
- “The tide was coming in at Cosmo Bay and the sky bubbled with a vivid orange before smoothing out to a fading lilac over the calm sea. The late-surfers were heading back to shore, laughing and shivering slightly at the chilly breeze. A few stragglers walked, hunch-shouldered, along the rocky beach with a dog or two, or simply alone. They looked to be personal victims of the sky-god’s wrath. Imprisoned by the aquatic borders oppressing them and containing them. Limiting their freedoms and joys the same way the ocean limits the sky itself. In a small coastal town like Caprice, the times only grew more depressing during the late autumn months. The locals died and shrivelled with the leaves and trees as their plastic smiles faded with the last few holidaymakers.”
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Moonshine Noire
- “Look at the starsLook how calm they areTheir dreams have come trueSo only dreams cure”
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Jazalyn,
vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget
- “It’s calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.”
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Fiona Apple
- “Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.”
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Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Culture and Value
- “Look at a tree, how calm, lovely and beautiful she is. She is always meditating for the love of the sun.”
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Debasish Mridha
- “The woman recovering from abuse or other stressful life situations may feel she’s in no way in charge of anything, least of all her own world. She faces the horse with trepidation. The horse senses the fear and becomes tense and concerned. The wise instructor starts small. The woman is handed a soft brush and sent to fuss over the horse. It’s pointed out that if she stands close to the animal, she will be out of range of a well-aimed kick. She is warned to watch for tell-tale signs of fear in herself and the horse. She’s warned to keep her feet out from under the horse’s stomping hoof. They’re both allowed to back away and regroup and try again until they reach an accord regarding personal space. Calm prevails, and within a few minutes, hours or sessions, interaction becomes friendship. It happens almost every time a woman is allowed enough time and space to work through the situation.So a woman whose daily life is overwhelming her learns to step back. Is this a cure for her endless problems? Of course not. Simple is not simplistic.”
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Joanne M. Friedman,
Horses in the Yard
- If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Eckhart Tolle
- A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought – they must be earned. Naval Ravikant
- “Out of calmness comes clarity.”
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Trevor Carss
- “I have a funny relationship with sleep.. It arrives without ever letting me be aware of its arrival. And goes by not letting me notice the nudge it gives me to be awake….Yet, I know it had been there…Morning freshness tells me about its useful presence..”
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Ramesh Sood