Calmness Quote by H.W. Brands

“What dominated his mind was not the living but the giving of his life.”

— John Stott

“A great many people, he had noticed, spent large parts of their time worrying about things they were powerless to alter. Had they concentrated…

— Setterfield Diane

“More than anyone I’d ever met, he seemed to participate in life as if it were art, and to practice a studied, careful carefreeness.…

— Joshua Foer

“He believed in people. He believed that if people could only be shown the right way-the way to health and order, a way to…

— Lauren Oliver

“...[he] understood that some things mattered and some things did not and that the happy people in this world were those who could easily…

— Arthur Phillips

“He had never understood the niceties of life and it was too late to start learning now.”

— Jeffrey Archer

“He was seeking no particular place, but a mood, an influence—indeed, a way of life.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“the idea presented itself definitely to his mind that it was in his power to exchange the dreary, artificial, idle, and individualistic life he…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The only class I'm interested in, is the class of character, determined not by blood or money, but by intent and behavior.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“He could not be positive that reason was much help in the conduct of life. It seemed to him that life lived itself. He”

— William Somerset Maugham

“Life is about getting the right proportions of warm concern and cool indifference.”

— Joyce Rachelle

“There was a skill to organizing your life into neatly bundled anecdotes, and he lacked it.”

— Marcus Sakey