Top 1200 Calm Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it's your safest bet.

I am convinced that a calm, quiet and harmonious interior can be as beneficial to health as a sensible diet and regular exercise

You have to be real with yourself. No one is doing that. People are too concerned with making everything look nice and calm and pretty.

Do not get angry because others question what you believe, be calm and loving, for anger is the root of a faulty belief.

Men in particular think that they have achieved something if they can make a woman mad, particularly if she is calm and intellectual.

Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.

Music is a great part of my life. It helps me relax and keep calm whenever I am not boxing.

I just focus on taking a deep breath, staying calm, and not trying to make the situation bigger than it is.

Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.

It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.

You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.

Passive aggressors who are adept at this will have trained themselves to remain calm, while you get irritated and emotional.

We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.

I love living in Birmingham, it's just a lovely gentle life, and it's calm. And it's full of Brummies who I find hilarious.

It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.

I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.

I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your friends. The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts. Check your own mind to see whether or not this is true.

I will not calm down! Women are allowed to get angrier than men about double standards.

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

You don't understand. I only prostitute the part of the body that isn't important, and nobody suffers except my karma a little bit. I don't do big harm. You prostitute your mind. Mind is seat of Buddha. What you do is very very bad. You should not use your mind in that way

Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.

There are moments in life where it gets so hectic that time becomes a blur. Keep calm and never give up.

The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed. It can never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.

My focus is on always trying to treat the inevitable highs and lows of life with the same blissful, calm energy.

Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.

Coaches are like ducks. Calm on top, but paddling underneath. Believe me, there's a lot of leg movement.

To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body.

Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes!

I tried to speak in a cool, calm way, but the zombie rose up in my throat and choked me off.

I tried the Calm app, but that I don't rec - well, maybe I got a bad story or something - but it didn't work for me.

The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.

The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.

The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories when it can, but will manufacture lies when it can’t.

When you are calm, quiet and sensitive then you can expand. But when you are irritated, phobic, fearful, insensitive, and neurotic, you can't achieve anything.

Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you're not aware really of the solution.

I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright.

When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.

The water is calm, but the currents pull beneath the surface. Though they can’t be seen, they have the power to drag cats to their deaths.

In pure awareness the mind cannot drag you down into the mud, into the gutter. In anger, in hatred, in jealousy, the mind is absolutely impotent in the face of awareness. And because the mind is absolutely impotent, your whole being is in a profound silence - the peace that passeth understanding.

Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way to know it is to know it from within, from your witnessing self. The more you become aware, the more you can watch your mind - its subtle functioning. The functioning is tremendously complex and beautiful. Mind is the most complex phenomenon on the earth, the most subtle flowering of consciousness. If you want to really understand what the mind is, then you will have to detach yourself from your mind, and you will have to learn how to be just a witness. That's what meditation is all about.

I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.

One of my struggles is that I'm a glutton. There's always those very simple, long, old-ass things, but they're very real to me, and I'm sitting in them, and they're swirling in my mind all the time. I tell people about it and they think, "Why don't you just go and make some money, go get a big-screen TV, or look at the Internet." Or they say, "Go create some introspective art." I just want to explode. I don't know how everybody else is able to walk around so calm. It's amazing to me when I see people walking so calmly down the street. I envy them, but I also kind of hate them.

Living in Edmonton feels so calm, but there is still so much to experience. I know I can find something to do if I want to have fun.

I was in L.A. during an earthquake in 1994, an experience that really stressed me out. I started doing yoga to calm my nerves.

The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.

There is no more off-leash reliable, calm, sophisticated, go-with-you-anywhere dog than a trained sheepdog.

How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

I get booed everywhere I go. If that can take that off my teammates, that's good. Everyone else can just be calm.

New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.

I had a turnover and three missed shots down the stretch. I just have to make sure I calm my nerves.

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.

'Balance' is a soft word. It implies calm, something almost yogic, but that's not it at all. The process is always chaotic and turbulent.

It's the nature of the mind to drift away. The mind is like the Pacific Ocean, it waves. And mindfulness has been shown to drop underneath the waves. If you drop underneath the agitation in the mind, into your breath deep enough calmness, gentle undulations.

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.

Moscow is a big city. It's all nerves - something's always happening somewhere. D.C. is a quiet, calm family town.

Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality.

Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.