“When your opponent is hurrying recklessly, you must act contrarily and keep calm. You must not be influenced by the opponent.”— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com
“In strategy your spiritual bearing must not be any different from normal. Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. Even when your spirit is calm do not let your body relax, a…”— Miyamoto Musashi, en.wikiquote.org
“Neil’s voice was calm, confident, most of all clear. ‘Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.’ It was 4:17:42 P.M. EDT, Sunday, July 20, 1969.”— Alan Shepard, amazon.com
“I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of thinking and enjoying what they call living, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of thinking and enjoying what they call living, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.”— Jack Kerouac, theculturium.com
“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”— William Wordsworth, amazon.com