Every once in a while, we will read a quote that sticks with us and bring us endless comfort. Reassurance that doesn’t cost a bean. So if you’re an anxious person, or you suffer with stress, then you may find solace in the simplest of things, including these words of wisdom and comfort. Here are 101 quotes about being calm which may help you:
- “Being still does not mean don’t move. It means move in peace.” – E’yen A. Gardner
- “Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.” – Robert Eliot
- “Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.” – Anais Nin
- “Do not learn how to react. Learn how to respond.” – Buddha
- “Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.” – Pearl S. Buck
- “It’s about finding the calm in the chaos.” – Donna Karan
- “Stop comparing yourself to strangers on the internet” – unknown
- “When you realise how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.” – Buddha
- “Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. It’s the only path to serenity.” – Lao Tzu
- “Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.” – Jodi Picoult
- “If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.” – Lao Tzu
- “If the ocean can calm itself, so can you. We are both saltwater mixed with air.” – Nayyirah Waheed
- “The more you’re true to who you are, the more magnetic you will be.” – Karen Salmansohn
- “There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.” – James Carroll
- “Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.” – Bill Hybels
- “Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.” – Pema Chödrön
- “What a lovely surprise, to finally discover, how unlonely being alone can be.” – Ellen Burstyn
- “Smile, breathe, and go slowly.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
- “Give your stress wings and let it fly away.” – Terri Guillemets
- “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realised how seldom they do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Calm people are not attached to outcomes. They have learned to do their best and let go.” – Sarah Schewitz
- “Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.” – Thomas Fuller
- “Mistakes and pressures are inevitable; the secret to getting past them is to stay calm” – anonymous
- “Retain a calm heart, sit like a turtle, walk swiftly like a pigeon, and sleep like a dog” – Li Ching-Yuen
- “Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.” – Mark Black
- “Breath is the power behind all things…. I breathe in and know that good things will happen.” – Tao Porchon-Lynch
- “Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen, listen.” – Jacqueline Woodson
- “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” – Deepak Chopra
- “I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.” – Anne Frank
- “The only way to win with a toxic person is not to play.” – unknown
- “You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” – Dan Millman
- “In a calm sea, every man is a pilot.” – John Ray
- “Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt” – Saint Francis of Assisi
- “Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.” – Mikhail Lermontov
- “The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one. We need to let go of the lie that it’s supposed to be.” – Glennon Doyle
- “I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.” – Henry Fielding
- “Don’t believe everything you think” – unknown
- “Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.” – Hermann Hesse
- “A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “You can’t always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.” – Wayne Dyer
- “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
- “Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance” – anonymous
- “Raise your words, not your voice. It is the rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” – Rumi
- “Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.” – Arthur Somers Roche
- “A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.” – Charlotte Brontë
- “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – unknown
- “He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age” – Plato
- “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” – Thích Nhất Hạnh
- “The best way out is always through” – anonymous
- “The fruit of silence is tranquillity” – An Arabian proverb
- “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”- Dalai Lama
- “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced” – unknown
- “The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.” – Jules Renard
- “We need much less than we think we need.” – Maya Angelou
- “You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.” – Paul Colelo, The Alchemist
- “Breathe, darling. This is just a chapter. It’s not your whole story.” – S C Lourie
- “Our attitude towards life determines life’s attitude towards us.” – Earl Nightingale
- “Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organise your life around it.” – Brian Tracy
- “Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” – Charles Spurgeon
- “One of the best ways to reduce stress is to accept the things that you cannot control.” – M. P. Neary
- “Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear” – Buddha
- “Rule your mind or it will rule you.” – anonymous
- “I love the storm and fear the calm.” – Christina Queen of Sweden
- “When looking back doesn’t interest you anymore, you’re doing something right.” – unknown
- “Keep calm and keep learning.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
- “You can” – unknown
- “A soft reminder: not everything that weighs you down is yours to carry” – unknown
- “Close your eyes, shut your mind for a while, for there a tranquil land that awaits your presence” – anonymous
- “Just do what you can today” – unknown
- “Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.” – Ziggy Marley
- “It’s more than ok to say no to the people and places that harm your peace.” – Nikki Rowe
- “You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you” – anonymous
- “Don’t try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers every day without forcing their buds.” – Osho
- “In your calm is your strength” — German proverb
- “Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go.” – Mooji
- “Nothing external to you has any power over you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, it empties today of its strength.” – Corrie ten Boom
- “In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” – Lee Iacocca
- “Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
- “I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.” – Jane Austen
- “When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” – Peter Marshall
- “When things change inside you, things change around you.” – Unknown
- “Quiet mind, quiet soul.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
- “What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.” – Alberto Caeiro
- “You are the sky. Everything else, it’s just the weather” – Pema Chodron
- “Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.” – Swedish Proverb
- “The day she let go of the things that were weighing her down, was the day she began to shine the brightest.” – Katrina Mayer
- “Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.” – Charles M. Schulz
- “Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax.” – Osho
- “When you have inner calmness then you automatically succeed in what you do. The more silent you are from inside, your thoughts and actions become more powerful.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
- “Seasons change and so do we” – unknown
- “Every day is a second chance.” – unknown
- “Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.” – Hermann Hesse
- “Slow Down, calm down, don’t worry, don’t hurry. Trust the process.” – Alexandra Stoddard
- “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Don’t search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own.” – Baba Hari Das
- “Go in the direction of where your peace is coming from.” – C JoyBell C
- “Just slow down. Slow down your speech. Slow down your breathing. Slow down your walking. Slow down your eating. And let this slower, steadier pace perfume your mind. Just slow down.” – Doko
- “Keep calm and keep learning.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Let go, or be dragged.” unknown
- “Peace begins with a smile” Albert Einstein / Mother Teresa (depending on your source)
I hope these quotes about quotes about being calm helped you. Although I’d like to end this post with a disclosure. None of these quotes were said to me directly, so if I’ve attributed a quote to somebody, I’ve taking Google by its word.
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