Calmness Quotes

“Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

“The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the best option is to sit back, relax and listen to a cool music, while watching them pack out of your life, and that's when you feel the intense release from the pit of hell.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“There are three things in life...not worrying what they are, not caring what others may think they are, and enjoying the wonder of what they might be.”
― Tom Althouse

“On the still calm waters of surrender, the reflections of clarity appear.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“The book. Calming object. Held in the hand.”
― Maira Kalman

“Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Conformity is a type of calm where you hover motionless on the edge of a scream that never comes.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“If you play a game where scrap pieces of glass are at stake, you will play skillfully. If your expensive belt buckle is at stake, you'll start to get clumsy. If it's your money that's at stake, you'll fumble. It's not that you've lost your skill. It's because you are so flustered by things happening outside that you've lost your calmness inside. Lose your stillness and you will fail in everything you do.”
― Liezi, Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living

“Only the frantic of fear can harm you. Your calm and centered self knows exactly what to do.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“When you walk in peace you will literally see attackers shattering themselves against your inner-calm.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“It looks like fallen petals, and it looks like rain. It looks like the sounds the birds make at dawn. It looks like the aisle of grocery stores when a song I love suddenly begins to play overhead, and I cannot help but dance a little dance. It looks like a sigh, a kiss, an unmade bed. It looks like Cheerios in a white bowl with a bit of silence on the side. It looks like a plain vanilla cupcake in white paper, a dance with the wind, pink toenails, warm socks. It looks like a fire against the cold of winter, and a deep lake cool against a summer sky. It looks like chick flicks, books that make you cry, and all the candles blown out on the first try.”
― D. Smith Kaich Jones

“The human brain is incredible in its capacity to heal and rewire itself. The human brain can be shaped and trained to be more resilient, calm, compassionate and alert—we can condition ourselves to be successful. Through mindfulness meditation, we can literally re-wire our brains through new experiences, which modify our neural network and our neural chemistry. Mindfulness also enhances gamma synchrony and improves the function of the human brain.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals

“But he's got your way of making me lean into peace whenever I see red.”
― Adele Griffin, The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone

“In your serenity there is a clarity, strength and correctness that is beyond the petty scuffles of the moment — a greater truth. It is the truth of who you are; beautiful, calm, secure, open, willing and safe.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“There is a simple path to follow, that appears only when you calm your mind.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Calmness and confidence are the source of energy brings with itself unlimited opportunities. Let us but ring out the old, ring in the new.”
― Kishore Bansal

“In the moments of your deepest need, despair and desperation, what you need more than any other thing, is calm and faith.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“When we see a part of the moon covered by a cloud, or a tree, or a weed, we feel how round the moon is. But when we see the clear moon without anything covering it, we do not feel that roundness the same way we do when we see it through something else.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“She listened to the soft splashing sound when the water met the bank. It took just a few moments before she was able to completely fade out the smell of pollution and inhaled the salty air. The soft breeze mingled with the swooshing and splashing of the waves, with the rustling of grass, the tictac as long undressed twigs of the tree met each other, composing a gentle melody like wooden wind-chimes. The whole concert of nature calmed her down like nothing had ever been able to.”
― Jessica Werner, Sra'kalor

“The calmness was fracturing, tendrils of fear seeping through her mind like ivy. Once the fear consumed her, she'd run.”
― Caroline Hanson, Love is Darkness

“The power of prayer is so profound that it can assuage our emotions. It calms the mind, dilutes all our worries, gives an anchor to fears and endows us with a remarkable peace of mind.”
― Balroop Singh

“Stress, burnout and strain on the human heart are all increasingly taking their toll for millions of hardworking people. However, even someone who is working in a job that simply ‘pays the bills’ can turn mundane and stressful tasks into pleasant activities with a slight adjustment in attitude and by adopting a daily mindful practice.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals

“The incredible benefits of practising and applying mindfulness and self-compassion in the workplace are being increasingly recognised by human resource professionals as well as the medical profession, as the stresses of competing in today’s global economy take their toll on the mental health and emotional wellbeing of many otherwise talented and enthusiastic individuals in the workplace.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals

“Mindfulness (present-moment awareness) is deliberately focusing our attention on our thoughts, emotions, feelings, sensations and mental activity without losing awareness of what is happening in the present moment. It is essentially being in a state of present-moment awareness and maintaining clarity without being swayed or distracted by mental commentary.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals

“Inner-calm will lead you on a beautiful journey back to your original self; the perfect, beautiful you.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Whether someone is a CEO of a major corporation or is serving meals in a diner, failure to adopt a mindful approach will mean that mental and emotional exhaustion could become a habitual condition. Whether someone is stressed about their stocks losing value or being able to pay their bills, the internal underlying conditions of stress and pressure are essentially the same.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals

“Learning to practise mindfulness greatly enhances our ability to manifest emotional intelligence and equanimity under pressure and to display calmness, empathy and adaptability when communicating with others, whether it be with co-workers, clients or the board of directors. Learning to apply mindfulness on a daily basis will significantly encourage a positive, creative and enthusiastic attitude at all levels in companies large and small.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals

“The process of applying Mindfulness Burnout Prevention (MBP) in the workplace or any environment has a much more far-reaching effect than simply accessing equanimity throughout the vicissitudes of life. Continuous learning helps us to stay youthful, sharpen our mental faculties and wire new neural connections in our brain (making us better equipped to accomplish); it is also a sign of humility.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals

“We cannot control the mind by trying to force it to be peaceful or positive. Many have attempted this using a plethora of methods throughout the ages, but it simply does not work. Trying to fight the human mind is like walking into a lion’s den empty-handed and believing that you have a realistic chance of defending yourself.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals