Everything is perfect in the universe — even your desire to improve it.Wayne Dyer
Finding Calm
Calm is not the absence of trouble; it is a skill, and these writers were its teachers. Lao Tzu on still water, the Buddha on the unguarded mind, Thich Nhat Hanh on breathing room. Keep this page for loud days — every quote here was chosen because it lowers the heart rate.
The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.Confucius
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.Epictetus
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.Gautama Buddha
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.Rumi
Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.Lao Tzu
By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a greater sense of calm.Dalai Lama
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.Marcus Aurelius
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.Albert Einstein
To know your purpose is to live a life of direction, and in that direction is found peace and tranquillity.Byron Pulsifer
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.Ralph Waldo Emerson
May our hearts garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.Thich Nhat Hanh
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.Kahlil Gibran
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.Bruce Lee
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.Rabindranath Tagore
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.Seneca
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.Mark Twain
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.Carl Jung
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.Mahatma Gandhi
Accept everything just the way it is.Miyamoto Musashi
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.Eleanor Roosevelt
Peace begins with a smile.Mother Teresa
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.Blaise Pascal
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.Victor Hugo
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.Napoleon Bonaparte
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.Chinese proverb
You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.Pema Chodron
Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water.Dogen
We need never be ashamed of our tears.Charles Dickens
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.Jiddu Krishnamurti
You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.Eckhart Tolle
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.Ovid
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.Leo Tolstoy
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tune without the words - and never stops at all.Emily Dickinson
Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.Jane Austen
I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills, when all at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils.William Wordsworth