Fiona Apple Quotes

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.

A mind that is characterized by unrest will not be tranquil even in the presence of great calm.

There is peace even in the storm

The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will hold me when I need to hold it is this the calm. There is no anger, no rage, no Fury. There is no want, no need, no desire. There is no hatred no shame no regret. There is no grief, no sadness, no depression. There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

The reflected world is the conquest of calm.

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.

If you want peace, look for it where it is, not in conflict.

Calmness is always godlike.

Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.

If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.

Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one.

When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar, 'Tis said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore. Far, far beneath, the noise of tempests dieth And silver waves chime ever peacefully, And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flyeth Disturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea.

Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

Be in relaxation a few moments. It can be any kind of situations - swimming in the river, relax with the river, or sunning on the beach, relax with the sun - anything. Life is full of opportunities.

Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.

Peace is our passion.

Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content.

If peace is not In Nature's beauty, Then where is it, where?

Holding still for a moment, what a moment this is, Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss