#calm

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. ↗

— Jules Renard

#cat #exists #ideal #sitting

I used to get nervous so I took up Yoga to help me calm down. ↗

— Jim Sullivan

#calm down #down #get #help #i

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#belief #calmness #experiment #meet #opponent

Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses. ↗

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#now #peace #present #zen #anger

If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance." "Eh?" said Syme, staring. "The soldier must be calm in the thick of the battle," pursued the policeman. "The composure of an army is the anger of a nation. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#calm #composure #anger

A Buddhist story is that a man came shouting angrily at Buddha, who remained unaffected by him. When questioned by others as to how he remained calm and unaffected, Buddha answered with a question. “If someone gives you a gift and you choose not to receive it, to whom then does the gift belong?” Of course it stays with the giver. ↗

— Bronnie Ware

#calmness #anger

You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm. ↗

— Bill Buford

#calm #modern #pace #traditional-work #business

Don’t do that? This is your sage advice?” “Yeah.” He burped and blew it out the side of his mouth. “Sorry, the burritos we had for lunch are kinda comin’ back on me. ↗

— Mary Calmes

#crane #hilarious #change

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