831 Quotes About Calm

Patience compels me to adjust my stride to the cadence of life, not the pace of my greed.

Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?

He looked out across the field. He seemed to have forgotten where he was, and for a while Larry rocked, bats fluttering over his view and crickets chirping in the monkey grass along the edge of the porch and his mother's wind chime jingling, delicate notes too tender to be metal, more like soft bone on wire; he'd always thought the chime sounded like a skeleton playing a guitar, and for a time they sat together on the porch and watched the sun scald the sky red and the trees black.

The enormous vermilion sun was dropping toward the sea, its reflected glow making a blazing path across the water to the very beach, where the last ripple was spangled with garnets. Otherwise, the sea was periwinkle purple, spilling and whispering and sidling with an easy going prattle of foam round the steeper rocks.

You can’t win without being patient. You know why? Success comes when you value time by using it profitably. It comes over time; delay is not denial!

If you cannot stop yourself from getting angry, then at least get angry about things that matters.

When a man is at peace he is a man, when angry he is an animal.

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters.