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  • The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. -- James Allen
  • Calmness is the cradle of power. -- J. G. Holland
  • Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. -- James Allen
  • Nothing is so aggravating than calmness. -- Oscar Wilde
  • The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy. -- Mehmet Oz
  • He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. -- B. C. Forbes
  • There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. -- Arthur Helps
  • Calmness is always godlike. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Calmness is the cradle of power. -- J. G. Holland
  • Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • Calmness is the living breath of God's immortality in you. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • The time to relax is when you don't have time for it. -- Sydney J. Harris
  • There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. -- Willa Cather
  • A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. -- Aesop
  • There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy. -- Ralph Blum
  • Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength. -- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
  • Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire. -- George Herbert
  • The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed. -- Confucius
  • Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. -- Maya Angelou
  • There will be calmness, tranquility, when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed. -- Bruce Lee
  • To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. -- Jane Austen
  • To reach the Land of Calmness, you must pass through the Land of Storms! All heavens require hard struggling! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over. -- Ramana Maharshi
  • Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive. -- James Anthony Froude
  • Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow. -- Victor Hugo
  • We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation. -- Nhat Hanh
  • It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness. -- Shunryu Suzuki
  • Calmness is a huge gift. And once you master it, you will be able to respond in a useful way to every difficult situation that decides to walk into your heart. -- Geri Larkin
  • The calm man is not the man who is dull. You must not mistake Sattva for dullness or laziness. The calm man is the one who has control over the mind waves. Activity is the manifestation of inferior strength, calmness, of the superior. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought. -- James Allen
  • Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength. -- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
  • The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me. -- Jason Giambi
  • Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan. -- Ouida
  • Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive. -- James Anthony Froude
  • What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. -- Ovid
  • The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. -- Robert Smithson
  • There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe. -- Charles Babbage
  • It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention. -- Pope John XXIII
  • In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing. -- Clarence Clemons
  • Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect. -- Giorgio Napolitano
  • The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough. -- Andrew Jackson
  • I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem. -- Stone Gossard
  • Nothing is so aggravating than calmness -- Oscar Wilde
  • Inner peace gives calmness of soul. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Keep your quiet spirit, peace and calmness. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Human complexity can be conquered with calmness. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • In calmness and confidence, thy strength manifest. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • The soul-sacred strength is calmness and confidence. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Pray with perseverance, with faith, with calmness and serenity. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
  • Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness. -- Alphonse Karr
  • Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • Nothing can give you peace if there is no calmness in your mind. -- Debasish Mridha
  • What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Cats are peaceful and tranquil - they bring calmness with their serene personalities. -- Chris Evert
  • Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness. -- Zhuangzi
  • There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain. -- Dan Simmons
  • I've just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday. -- Ellie Goulding
  • Yoga is bringing suppleness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life. -- Amit Ray
  • When an illiterate gets angry, you'll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
  • Reduce the speed and intensity to reduce stress. A flower blooms slowly, in calmness, and in serenity. -- Debasish Mridha
  • When an illiterate gets angry, you'll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
  • When everything is so tranquil in nature, any need for anything disappears in the infinity of calmness. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw. -- William Wordsworth
  • Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Love and a sense of calmness are the only things you need to bring to the experience of death. -- Sandra Ingerman
  • I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget. -- Charles Hamilton Aide
  • Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. -- Vincent Van Gogh
  • The calmness was fracturing, tendrils of fear seeping through her mind like ivy. Once the fear consumed her, she'd run. -- Caroline Hanson
  • The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. A Samurai therefore should neither be pompous nor arrogant. -- Tsukahara Bokuden
  • Be patient. Life will offer you another chance as soon as you find calm within, for abundance is born out of calmness. -- Leon Brown
  • The path which we believe in is the path of love; it has all the goodness of God in it-calmness and kindness. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
  • Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can't get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit. -- John Wesley
  • Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
  • Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger. -- Leonid Andreyev
  • To be world champion brings fame. The fame brings good things and bad things too. I try to take the good with calmness. -- Sergio Martinez
  • Those who possess adequate spiritual and mental resources will meet the heartaches or the happiness of each day with courage, calmness and capacity. -- Henry Clausen
  • To increase speed you must increase the amount of rest, peace, calmness that you can maintain. That is the secret to playing fast. -- Pepe Romero
  • Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still. -- Dalai Lama
  • Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better. -- Jeremy Collier
  • When you're angry and the fire of revenge is burning your mind, that is the best time to practice calmness, forgiveneess, kindness and love -- Debasish Mridha
  • She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake. -- Abraham Verghese
  • Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked. -- Patanjali
  • Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded. -- Maria Jane McIntosh
  • You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it. -- Izaak Walton
  • I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear. -- Sebastian Faulks
  • Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that. -- Herman Melville
  • The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life. -- Dalai Lama
  • In the calmness of the walk, horse and rider can find the time to think and to prepare the quality of the following trot and canter. -- Nuno Oliveira
  • Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness. -- Holbrook Jackson
  • a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens. -- Aidan Chambers
  • I have a big job on my hands now, there is no mistaking that, but I feel as though I have calmness within myself. (on being Manchester City manager) -- Stuart Pearce
  • Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength. -- Dalai Lama
  • I love to play, I love to dance, I love to party . . . I'm a liver. I think what I need to learn is how to find the calmness, the centeredness. -- Donna Karan
  • Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind. -- Dalai Lama
  • The goal of the Transcendental Meditation technique is the state of enlightenment. This means we experience that inner calmness, that quiet state of least excitation, even when we are dynamically busy. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness. -- Chris Prentiss
  • If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness. -- Peter Gallagher
  • The smallest effort to remember the Divine, or even one of its timeless truths, connects you to a calmness whose power is in that secret strength found in all things deep. -- Guy Finley
  • Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Never get angry, for anger poisons your system. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
  • My greatest talent is calmness and being positive. I concentrate on what you can do even in the worst of times. You don't judge by last week's errors or lost opportunity. -- Joe Torre
  • Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion. -- Henry Home, Lord Kames
  • My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds feel native to my veins, And cool them into calmness! -- Lord Byron
  • I think it's a feeling like I've got it all figured out. There's nothing that can shock me anymore. There's nothing I haven't anticipated; so at that point, there is a calmness. -- Tom Brady
  • When you encounter some problems, if you point your finger at yourself and not at others, this gives you control over yourself and calmness in a situation, where otherwise self-control becomes problematic. -- Dalai Lama
  • [Nicodemus] 'Magistra DeVega, can I ask for your help?'[DeVega] 'You can ask,' she said with her usual calmness, 'but the clerics haven't developed a cure for death by idiotic leadership." -- Blake Charlton
  • What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
  • I carry my flute around everywhere I go and pull it out. It actually becomes a panacea for me, for things that go on around me. It really gives me relief and calmness, tranquility. -- Hubert Laws
  • Everybody loves to talk about calmness and peace, whether in a family, national, or international context, but without inner peace how can we make real peace? World peace through hatred and force is impossible. -- Dalai Lama
  • Stand upon the Atman, then only can we truly love the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world. -- Swami Vivekananda
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