#calm

How can you sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#algy #calm #calmness #heartless #heartlessness

The storm before the calm. ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#stress #stress

When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-meditation #cosmic-ordering-meditation #meditation #meditations #meditative

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism. ↗

— Kate Adie

#calm #calm down #care #down #excited

I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself. ↗

— Fernando Alonso

#another #another day #any #ask #because

I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#best #calmer #flying #fur #get

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful. ↗

— Thomas Arnold

#alike #burn #calm #cheerful #childhood

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war. ↗

— Ernest Bevin

#been #before #calmly #common #common man

Blue is a tranquilizer, imparting coolness to your system. Blue slows down your system so it can heal and mend. Positive qualities of blue are willpower, aspiration, and reliability. Foods of the blue vibration are: grapes, blackberries, blue plums, blueberries, and any other blue fruits or vegetables. ↗

— Tae Yun Kim

#calming-the-mind #food-for-thought #self-help-book #food

My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me. ↗

— Kevin Durant

#been #calm #calm down #coach #doing