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Calmness comes ever from within. It is the peace and restfulness of the depths of our nature.

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

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.

I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

Do the things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me, and the God of peace will be with you.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear; and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault; for God has made all men to be happy, to be free from perturbations.

To sleep is to strain and purify our emotions, to deposit the mud of life, to calm the fever of the soul

To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.

The labour of the body frees us from the pains of the mind, and thus makes the poor happy.

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

Let us cleanse therefore the fountain of contentedness, which is within us, that so external things may turn out for our good, through our putting the best face on them.

the sensible make their life pleasanter and more endurable by mitigating their sorrows with the consideration of their blessings, while most people, like sieves, let the worst things stick to them while the best pass through

There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted.

Even grief, that passion to which the virtuous and tender mind is particularly subject, will be obviated or alleviated by the same thoughts.

Oh! the delights of rest when a man comes to be weary, and of meat when he is heartily hungry.

That was all of tangible things; but in memories we were rich. We had pierced the veneer of outside things.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

We may hasten or we may retard, but we can not prevent, the final reconciliation.

To admit that this picture has its shades is but to say that it is still the condition of men upon earth.