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• I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Our Love, Uniforms, Morbid

  Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Emil Marriot (1989). “Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja”

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• The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big for the esophagus. It keeps up a sort of involuntary interior humming in him, like a live beetle. His cranium is a dome full of reverberations. The hollows of his very bones are as whispering galleries. He is afraid to speak loud, lest he be stunned; like the man in the bass drum.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Voice, Whispering

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.21

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• I want your hands on my head.” I nod and edge back to make room for him. “Does it calm your racing thoughts?” He shakes his head, then takes my hand and spreads it open over his wide chest, his voice textured as he traps my gaze with his. “It calms me here.

  Katy Evans

  Hands, Voice, Racing

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• Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Spirit, Moderation

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• The more you read, the more you calm down.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Reading, Calm Down, Difficulty Of Writing

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Sea, Heaven

  1802 'It is a beauteous evening calm and free', l.1-8 (published 1807).

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• Time doth run with calm and silent foot,
  Shortening my days and thread of vital life.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Running, Time, Feet

  Christopher Marlowe (2014). “Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus”, p.524, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Kindness, Heart

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• Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom. Once hope has taken hold, courage must unite with wisdom. That is the only way of avoiding violence, the only way of maintaining the calm one needs to respond peacefully to offenses.

  Oscar Arias

  Wisdom, Courage, Freedom

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• The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Skills, Effort

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• Calm and order can be just as dangerous to democracy as uneasiness and disorder.

  Hildegard Hamm-Brucher

  Freedom, Order, Democracy

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• Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.

  Yevgeny Baratynsky

  Hope, Fate, Two

  "Two Fates" by Yevgeny Baratynsky, translated by Dmitri Obolensky, 1823.

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• So his life has flowed, From its mysterious urn a sacred stream, In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure, Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill, May hover round its surface, glides in light, And takes no shadow from them.

  Thomas Noon Talfourd

  Life, Beautiful, Light

  "Ion: A Tragedy in Five Acts (Act I, Scene 1)". Book by Thomas Noon Talfourd, 1835.

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• A picture without sky has no glory. This present, unless we see gleaming beyond it the eternal calm of the heavens, above the tossing tree tops with withering leaves, and the smoky chimneys, is a poor thing for our eyes to gaze at, or our hearts to love, or our hands to toil on.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Life, Heart, Eye

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Lady of silences
  Calm and distressed
  Torn and most whole
  Rose of memory
  Rose of forgetfulness
  Exhausted and life-giving
  Worried reposeful
  The single Rose
  Is now the Garden
  Where all loves end
  Terminate torment
  Of love unsatisfied
  The greater torment
  Of love satisfied
  End of the endless
  Journey to no end
  Conclusion of all that
  Is inconclusible
  Speech without word and
  Word of no speech
  Grace to the Mother
  For the Garden
  Where all love ends.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Mother, Memories

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Patience, Eye, Sides

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• Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Peace, Hard Work, Matter

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.184, Northwestern University Press

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• A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Death, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

  James Anthony Froude

  Science, Opponents, Reason

  James Anthony Froude (2011). “Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881”, p.244, Cambridge University Press

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• I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Smoking, Judgement

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• The Spirit is like the steady axis of a wheel. If our attention reaches the immovable firm axis at the very centre of the wheel of our existence (which is constantly moving), we become enlightened by the Spirit, the source of inner peace, and reach a state of complete calm and self-knowledge.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Anger, Sound, Rage

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• Many of us worry about the situation of the world . . . We need to remain calm, to see clearly. Meditation is a means to be aware, and to try to help.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Mean, Worry

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• Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

  Sean O'Casey

  Stars, Hair, Serenity

  Sean O'Casey (2011). “Autobiographies III: Rose and Crown and Sunset and Evening Star”, p.423, Faber & Faber

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• When you meditate, what you actually do is to enter into a calm or still, silent mind. We have to be fully aware of the arrival and attack of thoughts. That is to say, we shall not allow any thought, divine or undivine, good or bad, to enter into our mind. Our mind should be absolutely silent. Then we have to go deep within; there we have to observe our real existence.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Real, Meditation, Mind

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