It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.
What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.
I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned. . . than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason.
I think it's a feeling like I've got it all figured out. There's nothing that can shock me anymore. There's nothing I haven't anticipated; so at that point, there is a calmness.
I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind.
Be patient. Life will offer you another chance as soon as you find calm within, for abundance is born out of calmness.
If you're going to live in the anxiety of the surface of this world, you're never going to find the depth, the source. If you want calmness, you've got to go deeper.
She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.
There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.
It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
Find your centre and live in it.
Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.