Calming Effects Quotes

Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

Valium would have helped that bash.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

If I find a green meadow splashed with daisies and sit down beside a clear-running brook, I have found medicine. It soothes my hurts as well as when I sat in my mother's lap in infancy, because the Earth really is my mother, and the green meadow is her lap.

I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.

When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.

The only effect that I ever noticed from smoking marijuana was a sort of mild sedative, a release of tension when I was overworking. It never made me boisterous of quarrelsome. If anything, it calmed me and reduced my activity.

The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless

We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.

My parents got divorced when I was really young and I was a very hyperactive kid, so both parents independently would play Enya at the house to calm me down and soothe me as a kid.

The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

Dwelling beside a body of water is tonic for the weary psyche. Sea smells, sea birds, seawrack, sands - alternately cool, warm, moist and dry - a taste of brine and the presence of the rocking, slopping bluegraygreen spit-flecked waters, has the effect of rinsing the emotions, bathing the outlook, bleaching the conscience.

I drink red wine every night and chamomile tea before bed.

There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

Growing up in the Pacific Northwest as a young girl, whenever I felt emotionally overwhelmed, I would take a walk in the woods. Being in the stillness and grandeur of trees had always calmed me.

Montovani? They play Montovani to insomniacs that don't respond to strong drugs

Sprinkling drops of lavender and clary-sage oil into a bath is a totally simple yet complex pleasure.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

Personally, I am a great believer in bed, in constantly keeping horizontal...the heart and everything else go slower, and the whole system is refreshed.

Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .

If you're stressed at work, or before a competition, or if you need to be energized, or relaxed, there's so many scents that kind of take you there.

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman.