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Calming Quotations
"Contentment... comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities - of not trying to make ourselves this or that (to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves), but of surrendering ourselves to the fullness of life - of letting life flow through us." - David Grayson
"Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? ... Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine for tomorrow. As for work, we haven't any of any consequence. We have Saint Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still." - Henry David Thoreau
"Serenity is neither frivolity, nor complacency, it is the highest knowledge and love, it is the affirmation of all reality being awake at the edge of all deeps and abysses. Serenity is the secret of beauty and the real substance of all art." - Hermann Hesse
"The serene have not opted out of life. They see more widely, love more dearly, rejoice in the things the frantic mind no longer sees or hears." - Pam Brown
"Leave home in the sunshine: Dance through a meadow - Or sit by a stream and just be. The lilt of the water will gather your worries and carry them out to the sea." - J. Donald Walters
"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live." - Lin Yutang
"Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way." - May Sarton
"Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Life just is. You have to flow with it. Give yourself to the moment. Let it happen." - Governor Jerry Brown
"The quieter you become, the more you can hear." - Baba Ram Dass
"If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"The strong, calm man is always loved and revered. He is like a shade-giving tree in a thirsty land, or a sheltering rock in a storm". - James Allen
"From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength." - Pam Brown
"To a mind that is still the whole universe surrenders." - Chuang Tzu
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