17 Quotes For When You Need To Keep Calm And Move On

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We all find ourselves overwhelmed at times. We struggle to find a healthy balance between doing what needs to be done and being happy. To be happy, we first need to be happy with ourselves. Sometimes, we have to keep calm and be what we love. The following quotes are for when you need an extra reminder why you should not allow life to break your spirit.

1.

Do not learn how to react. Learn how to respond.
—Buddha
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2.

Choose to be optimistic. It feels better.
—Dalai Lama
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3.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we’re frantic, life will be frantic. If we’re peaceful, life will be peaceful.
—Marianne Williamson
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4.

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
—Rumi
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5.

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.
—Eckhart Tolle
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6.

A person who practices compassion and forgiveness has great inner strength, whereas aggression is usually a sign of weakness.
—Dalai Lama
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7.

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
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8.

Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.
—David G. Allen
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9.

The one who had the power to calm the elements of the earth has power to calm our souls.
—Elder Robert D. Hales
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10.

Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go.
—Mooji
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11.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
—Mahatma Gandhi
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12.

Remember the entrance to the sanctuary is inside you.
—Rumi
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13.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored that anything on which it is poured.
—Mark Twain
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14.

Come to me all who are weary and I will give you rest.
—Matthew 11:28
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15.

Get the inside right. The outside will fall into place.
—Eckhart Tolle
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16.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
—Dalai Lama
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17.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there—buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.
—Deepak Chopra
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