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Let us ever turn our face toward the future with confidence and trust, with the calmness of a life in harmony with itself, true to its ideals, and slowly and constantly progressing toward their realization.

Nature never hurries. Every phase of her working shows plan, calmness, reliability, and the absence of hurry.

Calmness is singleness of purpose, absolute confidence, and conscious power,--ready to be focused in an instant to meet any crisis.

Calmness is the crown of self-control.

Calmness is the rarest quality in human life.

God commits to man ever only new beginnings, new wisdom, and new days to use the best of his knowledge.

Stop, rest for a moment, and let calmness and peace assert themselves.

To be ready for the great crises of life we must learn serenity in our daily living.

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness.

Sara hugged her close and tried to laugh. There was a sort of comfort in the warmth of the plump, childish body.

Everything was strange and silent and she seemed to be hundreds of miles away from anyone, but somehow she did not feel lonely at all.

As he sat gazing into the clear running of the water, Archibald Craven gradually felt his mind and body both grow quiet, as quiet as the valley itself.

I remember an hour when I was discouraged and ready to falter. For days I had been pegging away at a task which refused to get itself accomplished.

There, too, after a fit of temper, I went to find comfort and to hide my hot face in the cool leaves and grass.

What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!

I’ve been trying to cure it for forty years, and have only succeeded in controlling it. I am angry nearly every day of my life, Jo, but I have learned not to show it, and I still hope to learn not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do so.

She felt comforted at once by the sympathy and confidence given her.

Have regular hours for work and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

It is an excellent plan to have some place where we can go to be quiet, when things vex or grieve us.

It’s all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it’s not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?

It would be worth while to win, but she no longer thought life would be insupportable if she did not.

Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.

Life becomes better and days become lighter when you focus more on appreciating little things and less on big worries. At some point you realise that peace is more important than trying to please others. Genuine people, happy heart and good health are real luxuries.

Self care is being honest with yourself about your negative habits. It's taking ownership of your faults and growing from them. It's diverting from negative space to positive one. It's creating balance. It's watering your own garden. It's being gentle but honest with yourself.