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#calmness

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #calmness




...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...


John Geddes


#moon #solitude #love

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.


Charles Babbage


#circumstances #criticisms #distinguish #few #may

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.


Ouida


#christianity #death #gay #made #pagan

But the thing which had made him fall for her, fall properly, was the way she seemed so calm and so quiet and so sad. Surrounded by noisy bankers showing off, and their variously pushy or beady or anxious or competitive wives, she seemed to be from somewhere else; a place where people carried their own burdens; a grander and realer and more honourable place. Roger didn't know that Matya spent a lot of that evening thinking about home, but he could tell that she was thinking about something, and it was that other thing which, for him, did it.


John Lanchester


#crushes #desire #fancy #home #love

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.


Thomas Hardy


#individuality #nature #soul #spirituality #nature

How can you sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.


Oscar Wilde


#algy #calm #calmness #heartless #heartlessness

When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.


Stephen Richards


#cosmic-meditation #cosmic-ordering-meditation #meditation #meditations #meditative

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.


Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton


#calm #calmness #itself #power #strength

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.


B. C. Forbes


#appear #assuring #badly #calmness #come

I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.


Stone Gossard


#always #better #calmness #challenges #ease






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