Calmness Quotes - Page 9

• 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

  Hurt, Sadness, Joy

  Aidan Chambers (1987). “Now I know: a novel”, Vintage

  7 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• 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

  Knowing, Perfect, Looks

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3104, Manonmani Publishers

  8 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• I've just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday.

  Ellie Goulding

  Ideas, Someday, Peacefulness

  20 Copiar cita

• Tengo un gran trabajo entre manos, no hay duda, pero me siento tranquilo.
  (sobre ser entrenador del Manchester City)

  Stuart Pearce

  Empleo, manos, ciudades

  6 Copiar cita

• No puedo evitar dar aquí mi más decidido sufragio en favor de las cualidades morales de los maníacos. No he conocido, salvo en los romances, maridos más cariñosos, padres más afectuosos, más apasionados... que en el manicomio, durante sus intervalos de calma y razón.

  Philippe Pinel

  Marido, Dar, Romance

  25 Copiar cita

• And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while listening to opera on the radio, and to go that night to an Indian restaurant with a friend and be home by nine o'clock - these are enough. They are gifts.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Home, Night, Appreciate

  4 Copiar cita

• 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

  Heart, Despair, Poverty

  4 Copiar cita

• When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind - with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows
  the laws of God and can apply them?

  Florence Nightingale

  Home, Wind, Law

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.97, University of Pennsylvania Press

  5 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Desire, Deeds

  131 Copiar cita

• Fighting is all about calmness and relaxation. My appearance was all an illusion. My appearance is of a mad man, but I'm really calm and collected. Even though I'm fighting, I'm calm and relaxed as possible, despite my displays, because once you get excited, you can't fight at the highest level of your ability.

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Men, Mad

  22 Copiar cita

• Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Character, Persons

  "Aforismos sobre el hombre. Traducido del manuscrito original del reverendo John Caspar Lavater, ciudadano de Zuric ; [Una línea de Juvenal]" por Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• 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

  Beautiful, Sunday, Earth

  Maria Jane McIntosh (1847). “Two Lives: Or, To Seem and to be”, p.199

  7 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Rejoicing refers to moderation of spirit when the mind keeps itself in calmness under adversity and does not give indulgence to grief. Constant praying is the way of 'rejoicing perpetually', for by this means we ask from God alleviation in connection with all our distresses.

  Juan Calvino

  Grief, Mean, Adversity

  John Calvin “John Calvin's Bible Commentaries On St. Paul's Epistles To The Philippians, Colossians And Thessalonians”, Jazzybee Verlag

  6 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• On every occasion of uneasiness, we should retire to prayer, that we may give place to the grace and light of God and then form our resolutions, without being in any pain about what success they may have. In the greatest temptations, a single look to Christ, and the barely pronouncing his name, suffices to overcome the wicked one, so it be done with confidence and calmness of spirit.

  Juan Wesley

  Pain, Prayer, Light

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.526

  23 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• No entiendo cómo puedes sentarte ahí, comiendo tranquilamente magdalenas cuando estamos en este horrible lío. Me parece que no tienes corazón". "Bueno, no puedo comer magdalenas agitadamente. La mantequilla probablemente me mancharía los puños. Siempre hay que comer las magdalenas con calma. Es la única manera de comerlas". "Yo digo que es totalmente despiadado que comas magdalenas, dadas las circunstancias.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heartless, Cuffs, Muffins

  Oscar Wilde (2012). "La importancia de llamarse Ernesto", p.41, Courier Corporation.

  7 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Do not let the fame come near to you! Protect your freedom! Fame must be avoided so as to breathe freely! Stay in the shadow to work comfortably! Away from the crowds, in the heart of calmness, there is wonderful peace of mind that no fame can ever give you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Peace, Freedom, Heart

  4 Copiar cita

• Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfill your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Self, Serenity, Desire

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.45, Manonmani Publishers

  14 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• 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

  Over You, Feelings, Panic

  8 Copiar cita

• Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen in a painting's line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? - and is the true effect of a good painting on the spectator one that makes at once for repose and energy, calmness and intensity, serenity and stir?

  Eli Siegel

  Artist, Color, Serenity

  14 Copiar cita

• Mi sueño es crear un arte lleno de equilibrio, pureza y calma, liberado de un tema desconcertante o que llame demasiado la atención. En mis cuadros, deseo crear un remedio espiritual, similar a un cómodo sillón que proporciona descanso de las expectativas físicas para el que trabaja espiritualmente, tanto el hombre de negocios como el artista.

  Henri Matisse

  Dream, Spiritual, Art

  74 Copiar cita

• Find your centre and live in it.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Relax, Centre

  34 Copiar cita

• Así, Gautama [Buda] se dirigió hacia la ciudad para recoger limosna, y los dos samanas lo reconocieron únicamente por la perfección de su reposo, por la calma de su figura, en la que no había rastro de búsqueda, deseo, imitación o esfuerzo, sólo luz y paz...".

  Hermann Hesse

  Light, Two, Perfection

  29 Copiar cita

• Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.

  André Kostelanetz

  Should Have, Listening, Sound

  45 Copiar cita

• Creo que si haces ejercicio, tu estado de ánimo -mi estado de ánimo- suele estar más tranquilo, preparado para más retos mentales. Una vez que me quito de encima las cosas físicas, siempre parece que tengo más calma y mejor autoestima.

  Piedra Gossard

  Fitness, Autoestima, Cáncer

  13 Copiar cita

• 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

  Mean, Goal, Meditation

  11 Copiar cita