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“I think one of the finest gifts I can give my friends in the holiday season is to pause with a long enough quality to actually SEE them. My calm, unhurried presence communicates this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you. I remember our times of together and am contributing right now to another quality memory. I value you and honor and take the time, right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."”

“Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.”

Giving Pain Love Is Flower Calm Serene Flower Love

Book:Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected

Source: Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected

“No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life. Some lean back in majestic repose; others, absolutely sheer or nearly so for thousands of feet, advance beyond their companions in thoughtful attitudes, giving welcome to storms and calms alike, seemingly aware, yet heedless, of everything going on about them.”

Giving Made Hands Seems Attitude Feet Rocks Wall Calm Storm Welcome Compare Thoughtful Temples Companion Sheer Repose Majestic Yosemite

Book:The Yosemite: John Muir's quest to preserve the wilderness

Source: The Yosemite: John Muir's quest to preserve the wilderness

“Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar! The will to neither strive nor cry, The power to feel what others give! Calm, calm me more! nor let me die Before I have begun to live.”

Men Giving Feels Soul Dies Peace Cities Cry Mines All Things Let Me Strive Calm Mars Jars

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what’s missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that’s why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.”