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  • Calming the mind is yoga, not just standing on the head -- Swami Satchidananda
  • Pressure is calming to the nervous system. -- Temple Grandin
  • There's a very wild side to me, but it's calming down. -- Alyson Hannigan
  • Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it. -- Johann Georg Hamann
  • Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island. -- Gerry Adams
  • I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head. -- Devon Werkheiser
  • What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. -- Henri Matisse
  • I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me. -- Ian Hart
  • The book. Calming object. Held in the hand. -- Maira Kalman
  • Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have. -- Gloria Estefan
  • We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself. -- Joseph Chilton Pearce
  • Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. -- Nhat Hanh
  • There's nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there's some one fighting with you. -- Mother Teresa
  • You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor. -- Smiley Blanton
  • Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself...... -- Paramahansa Yogananda
  • When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present. -- Eknath Easwaran
  • The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness". -- Alain de Botton
  • If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief. -- Brené Brown
  • Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
  • I now believe that bêtes noires usually attack because we're thwarting our own destinies. Calming the beast turns us toward our best lives. -- Martha Beck
  • Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. -- Deepak Chopra
  • The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. -- Ernest Hemingway
  • People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • I have led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none, And never yet so warmly ran my blood, And sweetly, on and on Calming itself to the long-wished for end, Full to the banks, close on the prom- ised good. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication. -- Daniel Goleman
  • I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. -- T. S. Eliot
  • I've always found the rain very calming. -- Venus Williams
  • I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming. -- Chad Harbach
  • When I'm home, I like a cozy, comfortable, calming space. -- Stacy Keibler
  • I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing. -- Joyce DiDonato
  • People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with. -- Yolanda Adams
  • Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row. -- Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's what football is to some guys. -- Melissa McCarthy
  • Sometimes I light incense and a candle. It's so peaceful and quiet. The steadiness of the energy and the reliability of the warmth have a calming effect. -- Cindy Williams
  • I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines. -- Gail Tsukiyama
  • Between all four children and my husband, I don't get to do much. But when I am in England, I cook and I garden, and it's much more calming and relaxed. -- Lisa Marie Presley
  • As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
  • I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear. -- Diane Kruger
  • It doesn't help to follow every rise and fall of your portfolio. It's better to tune out the day-to-day shifts, in fact. But getting a handle on the larger picture will make you feel more secure, and that goes a long way in calming your fear. -- Jean Chatzky
  • I think that going to the beach as a child, being in the water and smelling that salt air and hearing the seagulls, it had a real calming effect. But also, it was a mysterious thing - I remember wondering what was under those dark New England seas. -- Brian Skerry
  • L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that. -- Nicolas Berggruen
  • I love yoga because it's very calming for your body and your spirit. It gives you that meditative state, and its 90 minutes where you can get away from the world and just be, and exist in the moment. I need yoga. It's part of my life, and I can't imagine not doing it. -- Nina Dobrev
  • Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious. -- Marian Keyes
  • Wintertime for me is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio. It's a time I enjoy. And it's very reflective and a very calming time of the year. Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations, and this is where I bring them to the studio and see what will evolve musically. -- Enya
  • My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there. -- Adam Sandler
  • Cooking is really calming. Sharing food with friends, cooking. -- Emily Saliers
  • The smell of cooking food is often a calming one. -- Daniel Handler
  • I love boxing! Working out is calming and helps clear my mind. -- Adriana Lima
  • There exists no temple more beautiful and more calming than the nature itself! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • When the expected occurred, never panic, by keep calming, you gain control over the situation. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Impatience has a poor track record for perfection. Getting things right usually includes calming down! -- Garrison Wynn
  • It is rather calming to remember that you really couldn't have foreseen what is happening to you. -- Margaret Widdemer
  • Landfill' by Daughter has calming, rich tones that are only improved upon by the gorgeous voice of Daughter. -- Ben Lovett
  • That is to say, Hillary Clinton is not, in my mind, a satisfying or calming alternative to Donald Trump. -- Viggo Mortensen
  • Having a routine, knowing what to do, gives me a sense of freedom and keeps me from going crazy. It's calming. -- Chuck Close
  • Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty surya namaskars in a row. -- Kareena Kapoor
  • In the midst of the storm, your life boat appears. A psalm, a hymn, a word... calming the fiercest winds of the soul. -- Roderick L. Evans
  • The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way. -- Satish Kumar
  • Amethyst is a meditative and calming stone that works in the emotional, spiritual, and physical planes to provide calm, balance, patience, and peace. -- Miranda Kerr
  • Practicing regular, mindful breathing can be calming and energizing and can even help with stress-related health problems ranging from panic attacks to digestive disorders. -- Andrew Weil
  • Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's calming benefits. -- Joy Williams
  • I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible. -- Florence King
  • Get a grip. You're pricklier than a feral cat," he said, sitting up."Too bad for you, I'm not in heat," I said, calming down. -- Tiffany King
  • The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief. -- Gregory Maguire
  • The sweetest melody that playson starry nights and wintry days,most soothing to my listening earsand calming to beleaguering fears,I call a symphony on ai -- Richelle E. Goodrich
  • Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs to them. -- Jose Antonio Carrillo
  • I stood in the library admiring the huge book collection. There was something inherently calming about being surrounded by books, even their smell and texture was comforting. -- Saffron Mello Castro
  • I am continually calming the restless scanning of my rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that enable me to unitively merge with everything around me. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
  • I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband. -- Joyce Carol Oates
  • In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations. -- Robert Barron
  • Those who say there's nothing like a nice cup of tea for calming the nerves never had *real* tea. It's like a syringe of adrenaline straight to the heart! -- Cheshire Cat
  • The calming sea reaches out to me. Inviting me to its pure serenity."-Elizabeth's Quotes (inspired by a Pablo Neruda quote "I need the sea because it teaches me.") -- Elizabeth E. Castillo
  • I somehow hope - naïve though I may be, utopian, possibly - that my music has some kind of calming effect on the universe, that it's somehow beneficial to people. -- John Lydon
  • I commend Sri Chinmoy for his faith and serenity, and I hope he will continue to exert his calming and constructive influence on the international community for many years to come. -- Brian Mulroney
  • As you focus on calming your breathing, your anxiety will quickly reduce and you will start to think clearly again. This is especially important if you feel a panic attack coming on. -- Liz Miller
  • I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story. -- Nicholas G. Carr
  • I love baking, it's the most calming thing for me. It's therapeutic, it makes the house smell good, and I get to take the goods to my friends. I do it for other people. -- Lily Collins
  • It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear. -- Alain de Botton
  • Aquamarine is an airy blue with a dreamy feel. Cool and calming, ethereal Aquamarine is a shade with a wet and watery feel. Open and expansive, this restful blue also acts as a stress reducer. -- Leatrice Eiseman
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