Top 1200 Calm Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem reveals itself and it is solved. That happens when the mind is still, in the interval between two thoughts, between two responses. In that state of mind, understanding comes.

Whatever you may have to do, watch your mind. Also you must have moments of complete inner peace and quiet, when your mind is absolutely still. If you miss it, you miss the entire thing. If you do not, the silence of the mind will dissolve and absorb all else.

Mistakes and pressure are inevitable; the secret to getting past them is to stay calm.

But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.

When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do all the postures, but if the mind goes on functioning, if you go on thinking, you are not in yoga.

I'm not the loudest guy on the tour for sure. I'm more calm, I think my private too.

Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force and mind are opposites. Morality ends where a gun begins.

After rehearsals or a performance, you're wired and tired and it takes a while to calm down.

When I compete, I tell myself to be calm. It's not something that's the rest of your life. You're in gymnastics for fun.

I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.

Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.

The '70s were a hot time. You know? I was, like, the most calm of all my friends.

I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

I used to get nervous so I took up Yoga to help me calm down.

To practice Aikido fully you must calm the spirit and go back to the origin.

Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded.

People are more dangerous when they're calm. When theyre loud and aggressive that's usually an act and usually trying to compensate

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

I love Charlotte. I'm more reserved and calm and laid back, and this city is slow.

...all knowledge exists in the Mind universe of Light - which is God - that all Mind is One Mind, that men do not have separate minds, and that all knowledge can be obtained from the Universal Source of All-Knowledge by becoming One with that Source.

When you wipe out, all you can do is let the wave take you and stay calm until you can come up for air.

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Ride your horse calm, forward and then make him straight.

Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.

One of my most important 'Secrets of Adulthood': Outer order contributes to inner calm.

The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.

Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom.

I have my days like everyone else, but mostly I'm the calm guy. I'm the laid-back one.

Nothing matters, but it's perhaps more comfortable to keep calm and not interfere with other people.

Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others.

There is an incredible power & intelligence witin you that is constantly responding to your thoughts and words. As you learn to control your mind by the conscious choice of thoughts, you align yourself with this power. Do not think that your mind is in control. You are in control of your mind. You use your mind. You can stop thinking those old thoughts.

Italy was where the soul went to find calm and love, and I wanted to hold the best of it in the palm of my hand.

As long as the mind is there, your body and your world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective, enclosed within the mind, fragmentary, temporary, personal, hanging on the thread of memory.

What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.

Don't let my facial expressions fool you. I try to stay poised and calm at all times, but I'm having a blast.

I pray a lot and it has helped me throughout my whole career to stay calm and focused.

The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.

It is a Polynesian thing where you are calm and relaxed in your approach to life. But, when you're in the ring, you really go for it.

The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.

In my job, I worry a lot and try and stay calm and open. It sometimes works.

On the pitch, I try to be focused and calm and think positive. That's my attitude towards football.

If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'

[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty is, neither can he force his own mind.

I have to get my life back on track. Order as an antidote to chaos. Calm after the storm.

I always eat the same thing on game day, or I read a book to calm myself.

I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

Remember the word bodhichitta, because Atisha says the whole effort of religion, the whole science of religion, is nothing but an endeavor to create bodhichitta, buddha-consciousness: a mind which functions as a no-mind, a mind which dreams no more, thinks no more, a mind which is just awareness, pure awareness.

Mind alone is the cause of the bondage or freedom of the soul. By the attachment of the mind to the world we become bound; by the devotion of the mind to God presence within as the Soul of every soul, we become free.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

I never let myself get psyched out. My motto is, 'Stay calm and carry on.'

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if the mind is sick, your consciousness is never sick. Even if your mind is going crazy, you are just witnessing it. Mind is only a machine. You are not. Meditation is the experience: "I am not my body, not my mind - I am the witness of it all." This experience, this transcendental experience, immensely transforms the whole situation. Many things which were driving you crazy simply drop away.

I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them