A Quote by Tove Jansson

I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness — © Tove Jansson
I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness
Take a deep breath. When the game comes, no matter what happens, you can always keep your cool. I'm a bit of a hot head, a bit of a spaz, so it really helps me calm myself down during the game.
It's a safe bet that someone who tells you you need to calm down has never actually seen you when you needed to calm down.
Calm down, Horus said. "Don't tell me to calm down!" Bast frowned. "I didn't." "Talking to him!" I pointed at my forehead.
I like to relax and lie in the water. It is the way I calm myself down. But every time I walk past my bathroom, I go in and I put on some perfume. I use different perfumes for different moods. If I feel that I need to calm down, I put on certain fragrances that are more sensual. If I feel that I need to energize, I put on something else. Fragrance for me is so important.
Sometimes you just have to calm down a little bit and let the system work itself.
One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.
People are marked down for their age - once you get past 30, people look at you a bit funny. When you get to 35, the questions are all, 'When are you going to stop?' Calm down!
I need to be more under control. I need to calm down a little bit so I can cut down on the little silly errors I get.
Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.
My dad constantly tells me I should calm down, but I feel so sad when I see places I've known since I was a child closing. I burst out crying when a local pharmacy closed the other day; it's just going to become a shop that nobody has much of a need for. But I am trying to move with the times.
When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.
Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.
I have to have a little bit of time to myself right before whatever it is that I have to do because most of the time I'm sitting in my head convincing myself to calm down, all right, show down.
For isn't that what unconditional love is - sacrificing a little bit of your own happiness so someone else can have theirs?
I've got a bit of the eccentricity of Africa and a bit of Western calm.
I can be calm and reflective from time to time and other times I can have a burst of energy, that's just me.
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