Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode.

Yoga will uplift you if you are feeling sluggish or down, relax you if you feel high-strung, and soften your edges if you are feeling angry.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

I like to keep a calm set.

Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

At times of great stress it is especially necessary to achieve a complete freeing of the muscles

Meditation is culture.

Breathing deeply and releasing fear will help you get to where you want to be.

There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation.

Just breathe. Sometimes you're only a few breaths away from feeling better.

I thought I'd finally get to relax with Dimitri.

All I want is to have my peace of mind...

Even if you only stop and focus on your breathing for a few breaths, or for a minute or two, its very valuable.

I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.

I need to get better at learning how to stay calm. I'm a bit of a worrier and a stress cadet. Yoga helps me to some degree, but I haven't been able to figure out meditation yet. I have a feeling it would be very good for me, but unfortunately, I'm still holding it all in until I explode part of my life.

I definitely would rather take a nap than get angry.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

Yeah, I try to be really calm.

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.

Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

I'm terrible with patience.

I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but nothing winds me up more than people saying, 'Chill out' to me when I'm irritated!

I am never angry, although sometimes distressed.

I'm not an angry woman. I'm not bitter.