#calm

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#despotism #liberty #men #prefer #sea

There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#experience #pain #experience

Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face. ↗

— Manoj Arora

#duck #face #hard-work #smile #smilin

Quiet descended on her, calm, content, as her needle, drawing the silk smoothly to its gentle pause, collected the green folds together and attached them, very lightly, to the belt. So on a summer's day waves collect, overbalance, and fall; collect and fall; and the whole world seems to be saying "that is all" more and more ponderously, until even the heart in the body which lies in the sun on the beach says too, that is all. Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall. And the body alone listens to the passing bee; the wave breaking; the dog barking, far away barking and barking. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#inspirational #inspirational

I knelt a mortal; I rose an immortal. ↗

— Yann Martel

#elevation-after-prayers #life-of-pi #praying #salah #life

Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#centre #contentment #nature #peace #peace-of-mind

They sicken of the calm who know the storm. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#excitement #storm #women #women

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. ↗