Calming The Mind Quotes

“He’d dive deeper and deeper into the calming depths of the sea, safe from the storms on the surface. And when he found himself coming up for air to interact with an unbalanced person who was stuck in the methodical illusion of the game, it would be his wealth of knowledge instead of his wealth of coin that would allow him to act like a cruise liner upon the surface of the sea, too immense for waves to agitate.”
― Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success

“Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature,
that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures
tranquility.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Being under stress is like being stranded in a body of water. If you panic, it will cause you to flail around so that the water rushes into your lungs and creates further distress. Yet, by calmly collecting yourself and using controlled breathing you remain afloat with ease.”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life

“He looked at the houses he had been passing these weeks and though he had never studied them carefully they had become familiar through the process of seeing them so often, and he was now impressed with the change in their appearance as he looked at them through the gray of the air and whiteness of the snow, each house, shrub, tree, bush and mailbox trimmed with snow and blending into the air as if they were just a picture projected upon the still, pearly grayness, just an impression created by the silent snow, a picture on the edge and verge of disappearing and leaving only the air and snow through which he now lightly walked.
It did not seem possible, but the air was even softer and quieter. He continued walking alongside his prints feeling he could walk forever, that as long as the silent snow continued falling he could continue walking, and as he did he would leave behind all worries and cares, all horrors of the past and future. There would be nothing to bother him or torture his mind and fill his body with tremors of fear, the dark night of the soul over. There would only be himself and the soft, silent snow; and each flake, in its own life, its own separate and distinct entity, would bring with it its own joy, and he would easily partake of that joy as he continued walking, the gentle, silent snow falling ever so quietly, ever so joyously ... yes, and ever so love-ing-ly ... loveing-ly....”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Song of the Silent Snow

“Pink is a state of mind
in calm
so warm
that little smile
is your
charm”
― Anjalts

“I can always tell about the health of a culture of an organization by how much gossiping is happening”
― Brené Brown, The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage

“Let's go take a walk down to the blue hole. You need to look at some water.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven

“Change happens, if it needs to, when we become aware of what we are, not when we try to become what we are not.”
― Philippa Perry, How to Stay Sane

“Don't underestimate the power of resting. It builds you back unlike anything.”
― Hiral Nagda

“If the ocean can calm itself, so can you. We are both salt water mixed with air.”
― nayyriah waheed

“Byrn speaks and I understand him without effort, his words as clear as spring water. / Ask a favour of the plover, he says. Borrow her eyes. / Then I am flying through the air, and the flying is his song, and I am / the flying, and his words are golden ribbons scrolling about me, bearing / me along. I see the plover's wing and I am the plover. Suspended. / Above the moor. There is no longer any I, only All. / Simple. Vast. Unknown. / All to be forgot on waking, like dew on a spiderweb.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fayne

“Next time you miss a flight, get stuck in traffic or find yourself waiting on hold for customer service, it can be a good time to hurry up and be patient. The sooner you’re patient, the easier your life will become. When you’re patient you can relax and enjoy the ride.”
― Steve Goodier

“Voice of the weeping ocean over the stolen moon...a symphony heard on a moonless sky...”
― Sudhan

“What is Life? But a fleeting moment of a passing dream, a dream that flows too swiftly, nimble and calm, yet all but a moment's walk, a mad jest of a thousand voices finding a harmony in a conundrum of Time.

Finding calm in chaos, for a mind that never rests.

Smoky nights in the lull of rainy reflection.”
― Debatrayee Banerjee

“You think you're lost. You think you're headed for disaster. But this isn't true. Quiet your mind. Be patient. Let go.”
― Brittany Burgunder, Safety in Numbers: From 56 to 221 Pounds, My Battle with Eating Disorders

“When you pay attention to sensory details in the present moment, your thoughts and mental chatter fade into the background. Your nervous system settles down. It makes room for positive feelings to bubble up within you.”
― Gina Simmons Schneider, Frazzlebrain: Break Free from Anxiety, Anger, and Stress Using Advanced Discoveries in Neuropsychology

“I realize, anger is here to remind me,
to protect what is important to me.
I have a choice.
Instead of screaming what I don’t want,
I can calmly say what I do want.
Even when I can’t have what I want,
I can brainstorm ways to get what I need.
Instead of focusing on the problem,
I can focus on the solution.”
― Lauren Martin, Anger is a Storm

“There's something to be said about calmness. It's free but not easily found. You have to work at it to find it.”
― June Stoyer

“Stop trying to create a current when the sea is still.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Take a deep breath, close your eyes and count to three.”
― LaTasha Reynolds, Bryla's Amazing Imagination: Bryla Visits the Moon

“Nothing need to be done tonight. Let the world continue for a while, Let the birds keep singing in the garden…..... You can't win 'em all. That's fair enough, he thinks, that's fair enough. - Page 40/41”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

“The blunderer who expects to receive a searing lash of someone's rage , but instead receives a breeze of their tranquilly is swamped immediately with unfathomable shame and misery.”
― Dr. Anhad Kaur Suri

“No greater calm can be felt than when we are at peace with ourselves.”
― Andrew Pacholyk, Barefoot ~ A Surfer's View of the Universe

“When you cannot calm the storm, remember to access the safe and calm within you.”
― Maureen Sharphouse, Unhackable Soul: Rise Up, Feel Alive, and Live Well with Pain and Illness

“Music relaxes our mind, just as water quenches our thirst.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Remember, you're strong and brave,
and anxiety is just a passing wave.
With love and support, it will soon subside,
and you'll have calmness by your side.”
― Lyra Brave, Luna Heartstrong & the Whimsical Wormhole

“You have to take things with a grain of salt on a small island.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“There's times we have 100 different thoughts going through our mind, most are meaningless, especially conflict, with a possible someone. You'll find that letting go of conflict allows for clear thoughts. These make believe conflict rarely happen. Kindness will always outweigh conflict.”
― Ron Baratono

“The world may be in a hurry, but in the space between breaths lies the opportunity to connect, appreciate, and love.”
― Yvonne Padmos

“Watch The Sky.
Look how majestically it walks, it moves and shifts, it growls and screams, and sometimes sheds tears, like every drizzle or a rain droplet is a tear of either a deep melancholy or a mad ecstasy, like the clouds float along the sky drifting in a tune of their own, as if they are dancing in the Stage of this Magnificent Pathway, a string of Stars play hide and seek in its camouflage and while everything treads along this hurricane of a very Chaotic Forever Moving Wheel, there is this Calm, this innate Calm that is so breathable, so palpable, so tangible, as if the Whole Sky is a Magic weave of Something Eternal, something Extraordinarily Strangely Beautiful, something Simple yet Unfathomable, something that churns Hope and Despondency at the same time, something Smiling and Crying at the same time, something beyond our Understanding. Something that when we closely look in, we can just be, we can just float like those clouds and release the droplets of chaos from our mind in the very Silence of its mystical Majesticity, and slowly, perhaps very very distinctly in a snail's pace our Mind finally declutters its passing turmoil knowing how everything moves and shifts, growls and screams, but eventually finds a Silence of its own.”
― Debatrayee Banerjee