Quotes on Calmness

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.

How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.