A Quote by Anna Brownell Jameson

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

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Calmness Chill Despair Down Endured Heart Itself Sometimes Though

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Anna Brownell Jameson
Irish - Writer
May 19, 1794 - March 17, 1860

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Shunryu Suzuki

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

Leonid Andreyev

I don't know why I bring that calmness, and I'm not really aware of it, to be honest. I just come on, smile, and enjoy the moment. If that brings calmness, then great.

Karen Carney

Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

Bruce Lee

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

Vincent Van Gogh

Yoga is bringing suppleness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.

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My calmness is peace of heart, which reflects in the life I live. This peace of heart is the source that calms the storm.

T. B. Joshua

Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

Ramana Maharshi

When you worry, there is static coming through your mind radio. God's song is the song of calmness. Nervousness is the static; calmness is the voice of God speaking to you through the radio of your soul.

Paramahansa Yogananda

I have a big job on my hands now, there is no mistaking that, but I feel as though I have calmness within myself. (on being Manchester City manager)

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