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- “Don’t feed the drama monster. It’s insatiable and has no friends.”
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Donna Goddard,
Circles of Separation
- “The rain puts me in a daze. A daze that pulls me away into the worlds I’ve made.”
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Kaylee Stepkoski
- “The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.”
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Gregory Maguire,
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
- A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness. Albert Einstein
- “I hate hateAnd I love loveBut when I lack loveSometimes I hateAnd I’m angryBut even thenI don’t believe what I sayBecause I hopeThat one dayLove will fill my life”
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Jazalyn,
Rose: Future Heart
- “The greatest rest is never determined by where I happen to be, but by the God that I’ve invited to be wherever I happen to be.”
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “It is better to be still than to speak when you are angry.”
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Lailah Gifty Akita
- “The sublime state of peace of mind, despite our woundedness, emits a sense of comfort and gentleness to others, an inner charm that calms an anxious soul amid our benevolent presence, like a wild deer that drinks water from the serenity of the forest, and then leaves as quietly as it arrives fully quenched from its thirst. (— Danny Castillones Sillada, The Quietude of the Soul)”
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Danny Castillones Sillada
- “The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it’s so great, because for a little bit I’m out of my brain, and it’s got nothing to do with me. I’m not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.”
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Chris Evans
- “Kool – Kalm & Knackered is more like it”
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Kevin Kolenda
- “Sometimes it was enough just to listen to voices that weren’t your own.”
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Claire Lombardo,
The Most Fun We Ever Had
- “If the water is calm, the boat is also calm! If your thoughts are calm, your life is also calm!”
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Mehmet Murat ildan
- “To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a palpable movement. To enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilized mankind, who are diregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars.”
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Thomas Hardy,
Far From the Madding Crowd
- “To be wise means to know when to stay silent.”
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Kamand Kojouri
- “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
- “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.”
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Akiroq Brost
- “Conformity is a type of calm where you hover motionless on the edge of a scream that never comes.”
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Bryant McGill,
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
- “The past few months have been the most serene of his adult life. The megalopolis in his mind has quieted to a country road. He does his work, he eats his bread, and he sleeps with the knowledge that today hasn’t added to the sum of human misery. For now at least it’s peace of a kind he hadn’t imagined himself worthy of receiving.”
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Anthony Marra,
The Tsar of Love and Techno
- “If the ocean can calm itself, so can you.”
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Golden Flower
- “When we see a part of the moon covered by a cloud, or a tree, or a weed, we feel how round the moon is. But when we see the clear moon without anything covering it, we do not feel that roundness the same way we do when we see it through something else.”
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Shunryu Suzuki,
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
- “The distant sea, lapping the sandy shore with measured sound; the nearer cries of the donkey-boys; the unusual scenes moving before her like pictures, which she cared not in her laziness to have fully explained before they passed away; the stroll down to the beach to breathe the sea-air, soft and warm on the sandy shore even at the end of November; the great long misty sea-line touching the tender-coloured sky; the white sail of a distant boat turning silver in some pale sunbeam: – it seemed as if she could dream her life away in such luxury of pensiveness, in which she made her present all in all, from not daring to think of the past, or wishing to contemplate the future.”
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Elizabeth Gaskell,
North and South
- “When the truth finally catches up to you, don’t be a hero and run.”
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John le Carré,
A Legacy of Spies
- “The two lovers stood, hand in hand and close enough to feel their breath, overlooking, the calmness and harshness of the sea, a tenderness to its ferocity.”
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Grace Curley,
The Light that Binds Us
- “To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche,
Twilight of the Idols
- “Don’t over think things, just do you.”
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Ron Baratono
- “Es ist die Resonanz der Stille.”
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Nina Hrusa
- “- 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
- “Trying to seem calm and struggling to smile a life, silently keeps living me.”
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Suman Pokhrel
- “When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you are angry.”
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Amit Kalantri
- “The ability to stay calm and focused in the midst of change is what distinguishes great leaders from those just collecting a paycheck.”
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Todd Stocker