Quotes about Calmness

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

Rage and phrenzy will pull down more in half an hour, than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in an hundred years.

To know the Lord and his ways," as the Jewish prophets put it,250 has very little to do with intelligence and very much to do with a wonderful mixture of confidence and surrender. People who live in this way tend to be the calmest and happiest people I know. They draw their life from the inside out.

The ability to stand back and calmly observe my inner dramas, without rushing to judgment, is foundational for spiritual seeing.

Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.

In the calmness of the morning before the mind is heated and weary by the turmoil of the day, you have a season of unusual importance for communing with God and with yourself.

But hushed be every thought that springsFrom out the bitterness of things.

Resigned to vacant musing, Unreproved neglect of all things And deliberate holiday.

GROUNDED. UNFLAPPABLE. Got it together. A few people among us seem to have learned the secret of life. When others around them are losing their cool, these people remain calm, think clearly, and make good choices. No, they aren't supermen and superwomen, and no, they aren't on drugs. They've learned to tap into God's wisdom.

I must be exiled; but is there anything to keep me from going with a smile, calm and self-composed?

Detachment is the great secret of interior peace.

Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.