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• This I can report from the front lines: life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Long, Waiting, Lines

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• The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Society, Finals, Movement

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.106, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny.

  Joan Rivers

  Thought Provoking, Enjoy, Feeling Stuck

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• Nothing matters so much that we should throw ourselves into a state of panic about it.
  No happening is so important that we should let ourselves be exiled
  from from inner peace and mental calm for its sake.

  Paul Brunton

  Inner Peace, Important, Matter

  Paul Brunton, Wisdom's Goldenrod, Ltd (1988). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Advanced contemplation. The peace within you”

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• But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Swans, White, Born

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• This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.

  Charles Gounod

  Music, Ocean, Serenity

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• It's like being a newborn, this sudden sensory overload of noise, color, smells and gravity after months of quietly floating, encased in relative calm and isolation. No wonder babies cry in protest when they're born.

  Chris Hadfield

  Baby, Color, Smell

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.170, Pan Macmillan

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• If you want to learn to trust your vibes, you must maintain a peaceful and relatively calm attitude. When you're tense, nervous, or anxious, your energy gets tangled up and blocked and can't enter your heart center, where your Higher Self and your vibes communicate.

  Sonia Choquette

  Attitude, Heart, Self

  Sonia Choquette (2010). “Trust Your Vibes: Secret Tools for Six-Sensory Living”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When you are drumming and really feeling the music, the beat, it is like you are transported to a different place, where you feel so exhilirated and calm through your whole body.

  Mickey Hart

  Feelings, Different, Body

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• The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only show the evidence of a life where Jesus is completely in control. This is the outcome of allowing Jesus to satisfy every area of life to its depth. The picture resulting from such a life is that of the strong, calm balance that our Lord gives to those who are intimate with Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Strong, Jesus

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.35, Discovery House

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• As captain, I must always be an example to my team-mates. I'm calm and I don't have any problem with the coach or with the club. My only goal is to be ready whenever I have the opportunity to play.

  Alessandro Del Piero

  Team, Opportunity, Play

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• In meditation, healing can happen. When the mind is calm, alert and totally contented, then it is like a laser beam - it is very powerful and healing can happen.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Powerful, Healing, Meditation

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• Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!

  John Muir

  Adventure, Mountain Ranges, Mountain Peaks

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.187, Library of America

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• The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Peace, Temptation

  Norman Vincent Peale (2016). “Reaching Your Potential”, p.76, Jaico Publishing House

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• The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Faith, Frustration, Toil

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• When your opponent is hurrying recklessly, you must act contrarily and keep calm. You must not be influenced by the opponent.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Opponents, Hurrying

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.43, Bottom of the Hill

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• Peace comes not by establishing a calm outward setting so much as by inwardly surrendering to whatever the setting.

  Hubert Van Zeller

  Settings, Setting

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• In calm water every ship has a good captain.

  Grover Cleveland

  Water, Captains, Ships

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• Developing concern for others, thinking of them as part of us, brings self-confidence , reduces our sense of suspicion and mistrust, and enables us to develop a calm mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Self Confidence, Thinking, Calm Mind

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• According
  to my own experience, the highest level of inner calm comes from the
  development of love and compassion. The more concerned we are with the
  happiness of others, the more we increase our own well-being.
  Friendliness and warmth towards others allow us to relax and help us to
  dispel any sense of fear or insecurity so we can overcome whatever
  obstacles we face.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, Compassion, Insecurity

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• If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Live Life, Past, Serenity

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• There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.

  Alan Watts

  New Day, Peaceful

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• You don't have to shout from the mountaintops. Sometimes power comes in a soft, calm, compassionate way, like a quiet warrior.

  Faith Hunter

  Warrior, Way, Quiet

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• I know exactly what I want. Everything. Calm, peace, tranquility, freedom, fun, happiness. If I could make all that one word, I would - a many-syllabled word.

  Johnny Depp

  Happiness, Peace, Fun

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• If you become more concerned for the welfare of others, you will experience a sense of calm, inner-strength, and self confidence.

  Dalai Lama

  Self Confidence, Inner Strength, Welfare

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