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- “Like gratitude, authentic appreciation in the workplace is a realisation that can be nurtured and accessed with daily mindful practice. By and large, people who are grateful, happy and enthusiastic are going to demonstrate better performance than those who are unhappy and unappreciative. There is increasing evidence that a grateful mindset amplifies happiness and mental and emotional wellbeing.”
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Christopher Dines,
Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals
- “Who cares about tomorrow?What more is tomorrow,than another day?(-The Avett Brothers, “Swept Away”)”
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Colleen Hoover,
Slammed
- “Peace is not always easy to grasp or keep close. In the process of attaining and protecting it, you may find yourself tired, weary, and uncertain on how to keep your peace safe. While being uncertain is normal, continue to commit yourself to peacefulness. You are worthy of every drop of sweetness and ease that you encounter. Being tested is a part of the journey. Giving up, and letting go, is not.”
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Alex Elle
- “There is no calmness like confident.”
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Lailah Gifty Akita
- Everything that happens is as simple and familiar as the rose in spring, the fruit in summer: disease, death, blasphemy, conspiracy… everything that makes stupid people happy and angry. Marcus Aurelius
- “We had good reason to be anxious, beginning anew without a clue or map, but on our backs in that unnatural whiteness, we lay peaceful as waterfront sunbathers. Our plan was loose and as undefined as the path across a beach—any route seemed possible, all effective in crossing. And a calm energy lit my heart, perceptible in my movements, which seemed slower.Justin switched off the light; momentarily spooked, I wanted to hear his voice. I spoke into dim space: “I bet you’ll do big things here too—” “I never want to work again,” he cut me off, his unexpected decree like stardust in the darkness. For a moment, the blankness of New York’s canvas took on an energetic tone of backstage butterflies.”
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Aspen Matis,
Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir
- Having a calm and compassionate mind enables us to use our natural intelligence more effectively. 14th Dalai Lama
- “There is no Situation in which Arms can get an Answer. Arms only ensure, that there would Never be an Answer.”
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Vineet Raj Kapoor
- When you keep the peace with yourself, you also bring peace to others. Rhonda Byrne
- “By staying calm, you increase your resistance against any kind of storms.”
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Mehmet Murat ildan
- “How well she does everything! She reads not as if reading were the highest human activity, but as if it were the simplest possible thing, a thing even animals could do. As if she were carrying water from a well, or peeling potatoes.”These reflections calmed him. A rare peace descended upon his soul. His mind stopped darting from subject to subject. He could not help smiling…”
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Boris Pasternak,
Doctor Zhivago
- “but I am not someone who likes to woundrather I have a quiet mind”
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Sappho,
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
- I’m not doing anything, and yet I’m also doing the most important thing a man can do: I’m listening to what I needed to hear from myself. Paulo Coelho (Like The Flowing River)
- In the madness, you have to find calm. Lupita Nyong’o
- When seeking stops, seeker relaxes and stays in his natural state. @TradingNirvana
- “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 can control so much of your state of mind just by breathing. Justin Kan
- “Keep calm, God is still in control.”
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Lailah Gifty Akita
- “You are going through difficult moments of life. Times when you do not understand the ways of our world or the ways of our people. Hold on to yourself in these moments. These times will change. Calm will return to your being. Hold on to yourself. Please.”
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Avijeet Das
- “I am filled with wonderings, questions and doubt,but of one thing I am certain: it will always be youthat gives flight to the butterflies inside me;calm to the sea I have become and hope to the darkness all around us.It is you and it has always been you…you.”
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Tyler Knott Gregson,
Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series
- Unwind, relax, and deepen into the present moment. Eckhart Tolle
- “Sometimes there is no time to wait for the sea to calm down! If you have to reach your target, let your voyage start and let the storm be your path!”
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Mehmet Murat ildan
- “Calmness has the power to leave dirty water as clean water on top of dirt.”
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “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
- A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought – they must be earned. Naval Ravikant
- “During challenging times, we tend to take the easy way out. Our life’s course will be shaped based on these crucial moments. Amidst the chaos and confusion you may encounter in life. Always keep your inner-self calm. Helps navigate life better.”
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Jagdish Joghee,
A Stranger by the Stream: Most Times We Find Love. Sometimes, Love Finds You.
- “To calm your anxious mind, fear not and love yourself without judgement.”
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Debasish Mridha
- “I’m actually very humbled listening to His Holiness,’ the Archbishop said, ‘because I’ve frequently mentioned to people the fact of his serenity and his calm and joyfulness. We would probably have said ‘in spite of’ the adversity, but it seems like he’s saying ‘because of’ the adversity that this has evolved for him.”
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Desmond Tutu,
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
- “The book. Calming object. Held in the hand.”
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Maira Kalman
- People should learn how to just be there, doing nothing. Thich Nhat Hanh