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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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• How can life be worth living, if devoid Of the calm trust reposed by friend in friend? What sweeter joy than in the kindred soul, Whose converse differs not from self-communion?

  Quintus Ennius

  Real, Self, Joy

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• I loved my friend for his gentleness, his candor, his good repute, his freedom even from my own livelier manner, his calm and reasonable kindness. It was not any particular talent that attracted me to him, or i anything striking whatsoever. I should say in one word, it was his goodness.

  Leigh Hunt

  Kindness, Real, Talent

  Leigh Hunt (1850). “The Autobiography ... with Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries”, p.98

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• Humility does not disturb or disquiet or agitate, however great it may be; it comes with peace, delight, and calm. . . . The pain of genuine humility doesn't agitate or afflict the soul; rather, this humility expands it and enables it to serve God more.

  Teresa of Avila

  Pain, Humility, Soul

  Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, vol 2”, p.89, ICS Publications

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• Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. It results from over-motivation- leading to errors that lead to an underestimation of one's self. Work out your anxieties on paper and read. This calms the mind.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Motivation, Humility, Self

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• The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, America, Down And

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• So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person. [True Love. A Practice for Awakening the Heart.]

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Heart, Practice

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (2011). “True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart”, p.37, Shambhala Publications

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• Long drawn, the cool, green shadows
  Steal o'er the lake's warm breast,
  And the ancient silence follows
  The burning sun to rest. The calm of a thousand summers,
  And dreams of countless Junes,
  Return when the lake-wind murmurs
  Through golden August noons.

  William Braithwaite

  Summer, Dream, August

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• I'm calm and focused and I can't wait for the biggest sport event in the World to begin.

  Benjamin Boukpeti

  Sports, Athlete, Waiting

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• No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Love, Thoughtful, Men

  Woodrow Wilson (1915). “When a man comes to himself”, p.12, Рипол Классик

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• How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured... No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer...

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Suicide, Weed, Marijuana

  "Marijuana - Assassin of Youth". The American Magazine, Volume 24, p. 18, July 1937.

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• One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not to let it wander too far at other times. You should keep it strictly in the presence of God; and being accustomed to think of Him often, you will find it easy to keep your mind calm in the time of prayer, or at least to recall it from its wanderings.

  Brother Lawrence

  Prayer, Thinking, Presence Of Mind

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Brother Lawrence Collection”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my game plan, and try not to get overthrown.

  Dwight Gooden

  Games, Stay Calm, Trying

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• Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work becomes easier and you will sit down without distress to your principal repast which will restore your body and afford you a calm, delicious night.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Coffee, Night, Blood

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• Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going, with no judgments of right or wrong, neither staying nor going. This, then, is the Great Way.

  Huineng

  Determination, Meditation, Together

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• Here Stormbringer spies the Stepsons, the Theban fighters, and the 3rd Commando, attending to their own. In the face of such unflinching determination and unswerving devotion, the hurricane pauses and calms. Its ravings turn to mutters.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Determination, Revenge

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.491, Paradise Publishing

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• Maybe you are the "cool" generation. If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Mean, Stay Calm, Generations

  Baccalaureate address as President of Yale, June 12, 1966.

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• The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suicide, Suicidal, Night

  'Jenseits von Gut und Böse' [Beyond Good and Evil] (1886) ch. 4, no. 157

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• A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the art of studying moods. Disciplined and calm, he awaits the appearance of disorder and hubbub among the enemy. This is the art of retaining self-possession.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Clever, War

  James Clavell, Sun Tzu (2013). “The Art of War”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• The act of taking my own life is not something that I do without a lot of thought. I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. I do believe strongly, however, that the right to do so is one of the most fundamental rights anyone in a free society should have. For me much of the world makes no sense, but my feelings about what I am doing ring loud and clear to an inner ear and to a place where there is no self, only calm. Love always, Wendy.

  Wendy O. Williams

  Believe, Suicidal, Reflection

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• Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned, have pity on the tortured, comfort those who grieve and who weep, be merciful, humble, kind, calm, patient, sympathetic, forgiving, reverent, truthful and pious, so that God might accept your fasting and might plentifully grant you the fruits of repentance.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Spiritual, Humble, Grieving

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• It's incredible, they're [the medals] beautiful and as soon as they put them around your neck, it's pretty amazing. Shannon played outstandingly well. She was so calm, composed and she was just moving so well.

  Jennifer Botterill

  Beautiful, Moving, Hockey

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• His face is so calm, He shows no sign of stress or anything. Its as if he's saying, "No problem. Relax. I'm just going to beat you now. It's not going to hurt a bit."

  Dominic Roussel

  Hurt, Stress, Hockey

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