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“Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.”

World War Matter Seems Calm Insane War Of The Worlds World War I Contemplating

Author:Vanna Bonta

“I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different.”

Different Home Quiet Calm Circuits

Author:Jean Alesi

“Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra.”

Giving Home Mother Asks Quiet Give Me Calm Extras Very Happy Good Family

Author:Jean Alesi

“There is no more off-leash reliable, calm, sophisticated, go-with-you-anywhere dog than a trained sheepdog.”

Dog Calm Sophisticated Leashes Sheepdogs

Author:Donald McCaig

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

Calm Opponents Hurrying

Book: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.

Source: 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.

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

Calm Setting Settings

Author:Hubert Van Zeller

“Whenever you feel threatened or afraid, you should place your hands over your third chakra, right in the middle of your stomach, and breathe very deliberately and slowly until you feel calm. In doing so, you will actually begin to feel stronger and more protected. Breath gives us life and it is the source of our power.”

Giving Feels Should Hands Middle Source Thirds Stronger Breaths Calm Breathe Over You Stomach Protected Threatened Chakra

Author:Sonia Choquette

“But never have I been a blue calm sea I have always been a storm.”

Sea Blue Calm Storm Calm Seas

Author:Stevie Nicks

“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.”

“When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.”

Mind Calm Perceive

Book:Self-realization

Source: Self-realization

“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.”

Ifs Done Past Remains Calm Live Life Serenity Benevolence

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.”

Calm Calmness Aggravating

Author:Oscar Wilde

“The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.”

Men Proud Dignity Calm Ease Gentleman Small Man

Author:Confucius

“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.”

Ifs Knows Want Happiness Fun Peace Calm If I Could Tranquility One Word Peace Tranquility

Author:Johnny Depp

“You ought to have seen Frédéric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already flamed, throwing it into the pan, preparing the sauce, salting and peppering like Claude Monet's paintings, with the seriousness of a judge and the precision of a mathematician, and opening up, with a sure hand, in advance, every perspective of taste.”

Hands Painting Judging Perspective Ought Taste Calm Opening Throwing Ducks Mathematician Chef Preparing Seriousness Precision Sauce Opening Up Quacks Carving Monet Whiskers Monocles

Author:Leon Daudet

“Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but remain calm, humble, and in "perfect equanimity" if you want to continue in this deep state of consciousness.”

Ifs Want States Perfect Levels Consciousness Pride Calm Humble Excited Realization Accomplished Taoism Tao High Level Equanimity States Of Consciousness Anything In Life

Author:Laozi

“People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do.”

People Knows Want Looks Christian Guy Calm Nfl Coaching Look At Me Christian Faith Sidelines Inspiring Football Cool Guy

Author:Tony Dungy

“My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.”

Self Three Quiet Calm Analysis Shattered Introspective Sloth Thesis Glands Zoology Thyroid Thyroid Gland

Book:Life Of Pi, Illustrated

Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated

“Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.”

Looks Done Facts Courses Opinion Principles Quiet Calm Gentleman Reviews Entertaining Pursued

Author:Caleb Cushing

“Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism.”

Way Self Sometimes Clinton Calm Opposition Possessed Self Reliance Reliance Persona Needy Undisciplined

Author:Dee Dee Myers

“It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.”

Mind Wells Doe Amount Forgiveness Forgiving Calm Balanced

Book:Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation

Source: Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation

“So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!”

Literature Sleep Calm Feds

Author:Bryan Procter

“It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.”

Power Calm Manifestation

Book:The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

Source: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

“When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a horrible way to feel better. But there are two parts of your brain - one that really wants to destroy the other. & sometimes the idea of self-destruction is very romantic. I got over that.”

Way Want Feels Two Ideas Self Sometimes Brain Destruction Calm Horrible Upset Feel Better Self Destruction Self Harm Very Romantic

Author:Christina Ricci

“Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.”

Looks Philosophy Light Guilt Calm Rebellion Fraud Steady Temper Sars

Book:Cato: A tragedy in five acts

Source: Cato: A tragedy in five acts

“If you get angry easily, it may be because the seed of anger in you has been watered frequently over many years, and unfortunately you have allowed it or even encouraged it to be watered.”

Ifs Years May Has Beens Anger Angry Calm Seeds Calm Down

Book:Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions

Source: Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions

“Happiness cannot come from hatred or anger. Nobody can say, 'Today I am happy because this morning I was angry.' On the contrary, people feel uneasy and sad and say, 'Today I am not very happy, because I lost my temper this morning.'”

People Feels Today Lost Morning Hatred Anger Angry Calm Contrary Temper Very Happy Uneasy Calm Down

Author:Dalai Lama

“A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel dam.”

Giving Death Parent Mad Calm Parenthood Usual Dams

Author:Marjorie Fleming

“Because you want to keep an air of calm and cool.”

Want Air Quiet Calm

Author:Maya Rudolph

“Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.”

Ability Quiet Yoga Calm Calm Down

Author:Christy Turlington

“You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.”

Environment Quiet Calm Village Echoes

Author:Yannick Noah

“By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.”

People Issues Quiet Down And Calm

Author:Donna Shalala

“Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.”

Doors Quiet Husband News Calm Bad News Your Husband Good News And Bad News

Author:Indra Devi

“The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from.”

Mind Soul Self Source Quiet Calm Rock N Roll Inner Self Music Life Calm Mind

Author:Clarence Clemons

“Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.”

Ideas Asks Natural Acting Quiet Prepared Calm Producers These Days Be Prepared Definite Good Acting

Author:Bryn Terfel

“Violence is a calm that disturbs you.”

Violence Quiet Calm

Book:The selected writings of Jean Genet

Source: The selected writings of Jean Genet

“Stay calm and aggressive.”

Sports Calm Aggressive Stay Calm

Author:Gabrielle Reece

“Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.”

Problem Courage Sea Draws Calm Storm Uplifting Hard Times Encouraging Tough Times Words Of Encouragement Calm Seas

Author:Bill Hybels

“Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.”

Soul Remember Attitude Difficulty Calm Preserves Relax Calmness

Author:Horace

“It's a safe bet that someone who tells you you need to calm down has never actually seen you when you needed to calm down.”

Needs Needed Safe Calm Calm Down

Author:Robert Breault

“And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.”

Peace Quiet Calm Thee Diets Spares Peace And Quiet

Author:John Milton

“I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.”

Trying I Can Faces Attitude Dignity Calm Muster

Author:Arthur Ashe

“He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.”

Christian Funny Four Humorous Calm Gambling Serene Aces

Book:Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend

Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend

“I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in.”

Thinking Mind Art Reality Song Focus Calm Enterprise Significance Existential Spinning Good Lyric

Author:Leonard Cohen

“Be wary of too much calm, particularly in your mid-fifties.”

Too Much Calm Existential

Author:Ian Mcewan

“You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.”

Heart Rate Calm Heartbeat Stay Calm Heart Rate

Author:Chris Kyle

“Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious”

Knows Depth Calm Valuable Peaceful Repose Serene

Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“While the pressures of life are inevitable, if at the end of the day you are unable to completely let go of the day and return to a calm, centered inner state, you are overstressed.”

Ifs Ends States Return Letting Go Pressure Calm Inevitable The End Of The Day

Author:Deepak Chopra

“If you’re controlled by your circumstances, life is going to be a roller coaster with ups and downs. God wants you to be stable, consistent, not moved by any of these things. When you face an adversity, when you hit a tough time, one of the best things you can do is simply stay calm. Keep your peace.”

“The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting.”

Giving Doe Ends Exciting Calm Guides Recognition Transition

Author:Timothy Geithner