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• I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to reach the higher degree of concentration in the later ones.

  Rineke Dijkstra

  Thinking, Degrees, Violence

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• I'm newly widowed, so I've gone from having a life partner, and having another brain to make decisions with, to doing it all on my own and questioning what I'm doing. I have to be a calmer person, because my anger can look pretty terrifying to a young person.

  Adina Porter

  Decision, Brain, Looks

  "True Blood Actress Adina Porter: On Grief, Dedication, and Balance". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The man coming back from the hard mountain trip is a wiser being, calmer and radiating inside. I'd say momentary liberated.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Men, Mountain, He Man

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• Always man needs woman for his friend. He needs her clearer vision, her subtler insight, her softer thought, her winged soul, her pure and tender heart. Always woman needs man to be her friend. She needs the vigor of his purpose, the ardor of his will, his calmer judgment, his braver force of action, his reverence and his devotion.

  Mary C. Ames

  Heart, Men, Soul

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• the child unlucky in his little State,
  Some hearth where freedom is excluded,
  A hive whose honey is fear and worry,
  Feels calmer now and somehow assured of escape

  W. H. Auden

  Children, Fear, Worry

  W. H. Auden, “In Memory Of Sigmund Freud”

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• The more you nurture a feeling of loving kindness, the happier and calmer you will be.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Feelings, Nurture

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• The Dark Knight series is all from Batman's point of view. But if you look at Dark Knight 2, you'll see a Superman who's much calmer than the one in the first Dark Knight. Batman and Superman are dead opposites. I love Superman. Do I love Batman more? They're not people. They're only lines on paper.

  Frank Miller

  Dark, Knights, Views

  "20Q: Frank Miller". Interview with Rob Tannenbaum, www.playboy.com. August 21, 2014.

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• I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now.

  Brian Molko

  Everyday, Littles, Used

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• Exercise makes me a better parent. I'm calmer and happier.

  Poppy Montgomery

  Exercise, Parent

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• Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: "The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try."

  Jess C Scott

  Giving, Inner Peace, Skins

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• My family thought if I spent time in the military, I'd become more reasonable, a bit calmer. But I've always been extreme in what I do - both as a believer and a nonbeliever.

  Shahin Najafi

  Military, My Family, Believer

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.

  Louis XVIII of France

  Air, Sea, Empires

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 615-17, when Comte de Provence (1783). Impromter sur nos decouverte aerostatiques. Year of the aeronautical experiments of the brothers Montgolfier, Pilatre de Rozier, and Marquis d'Arlandes, 1922.

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• In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath that calm was a deep well of loneliness I hadn't known was there. ... Anxiety was my fuel. When I stopped, it was all waiting for me: fear, anger, grief, despair, and that terrible, terrible loneliness. What was it about? I was hardly alone. I loved my husband and son. I had great friends, colleagues, students. In the quiet, in the extra hours, I was forced to ask the question, and to listen carefully to the answer: I was lonely for myself. [p. 123]

  Dani Shapiro

  Country, Lonely, Husband

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• When you are practicing zazen, do not try to stop your thinking. Let it stop by itself. If something comes into your mind, let it come in, and let it go out. It will not stay long. When you try to stop your thinking, it means you are bothered by it. Do not be bothered by anything. It appears as if something comes from outside your mind, but actually it is only the waves of your mind, and if you are not bothered by the waves, gradually they will become calmer and calmer.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mean, Thinking, Long

  Shunryū Suzuki, Trudy Dixon, Richard Baker (2006). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

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• Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the best and the worst ahead of time but that it was easy to take a step you would reproach yourself for-all this freed the prisoner from any bondage, made him calmer, and even ennobled him.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Fate, Abdication, Steps

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• French parents are very concerned about their kids. They know about pedophiles, allergies, and choking hazards. They take reasonable precautions. But they aren't panicked about their children's well-being. This calmer outlook makes them better at both establishing boundaries and giving their kids some autonomy.

  Pamela Druckerman

  Children, Kids, Giving

  Pamela Druckerman (2014). “Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting (now with Bébé Day by Day: 100 Keys to French Parenting)”, p.20, Penguin

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• I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

  Andrea Arnold

  Adversity, Flying, Fur

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• I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you've got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all.

  Nick Hornby

  Relationship, Crush, Thinking

  Nick Hornby (2005). “High Fidelity”, p.63, Penguin UK

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• Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Motivational, Real

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• Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.

  Ben Stein

  Sleep, People, Achievement

  "Ben Stein Wants You To Sleep". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2011.

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• I'm so glad I'm not 20 years old anymore. I was in a hurricane. I'm a lot calmer now. I don't cause destruction for myself and others everywhere I go.

  Christina Ricci

  Years, Causes, Hurricanes

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• Burnin marijuana pon di corner, It keep me calmer, It mek me smarter. Burnin pon di highway, its the highest grade, gettin into my head.

  Richie Spice

  Weed, Rap, Marijuana

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• Music can't save the world, but can make one a little calmer.

  Joe Zawinul

  World, Littles, Save The World

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• I actually felt calmer and more serene when we got up to the tower that I think I ever have. We had literally done everything we could to prepare.

  Roseline Filion

  Thinking, Preparation, Training

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• So is work ethic. You do things over and over again, and when you get in a situation you like to think it comes natural. I think there has to be a mind-set that you’re not afraid to fail. I’m not afraid to fail. I’ve done it quite a bit. The calmer you are, the more the game slows down for you, and I think part of that is controlling your emotions.

  Derek Jeter

  Thinking, Games, Work Ethic

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