50 Inspirational Calming Quotes to Soothe Your Soul

"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present."

- Eckhart Tolle

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

"In a world of your own, within you, there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself."

- Hermann Hesse

"Smile, breathe and go slowly."

- Thích Nhất Hạnh

"Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is rather than as you think it should be."

- Wayne W. Dyer

"And it is the mind that can learn to stay calm, resourceful, compassionate, and effective. Everything depends on our state of mind – the one thing in life we can do something about."

- Eknath Easwaran

"Set peace of mind as your highest goal and organize your life around it."

- Brian Tracy

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."

- Gautama Buddha

"Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"To be calm is the highest achievement of the self."

- Zen Proverb

"True peace cannot be achieved by force or by merely invoking the word “peace.” It can only be attained by training the mind and learning to cultivate inner peace. Peace is a calm and gentle state of mind."

- 17th Karmapa

"Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health."

- Dalai Lama

"He who is contented is rich."

- Lao Tzu

"You are the sky. Everything else—it’s just the weather."

- Pema Chödrön

"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace."

- Buddha

"Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself."

- Hermann Hesse

"If you feel “burnout” setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself."

- Dalai Lama

"Inner peace is beyond victory or defeat."

- Bhagavad Gita

"The nearer a man comes to a calm mind the closer he is to strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen, and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper."

- James Carroll

"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom."

- James Allen

"Every day, think as you wake up, ‘I am fortunate to be alive. I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste it."

- Dalai Lama

"Breath is the power behind all things…. I breathe in and know that good things will happen."

- Tao Porchon-Lynch

"You have dug your soul out of the dark, you have fought to be here; do not go back to what buried you."

- Bianca Sparacino

"If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath."

- Amit Ray

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."

- Wayne Dyer

"Keep walking through the storm. Your rainbow is waiting on the other side."

- Heather Stillufsen

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky."

- Buddha

"Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there,’ or being in the present but wanting to be in the future."

- Eckhart Tolle

"It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future. You cannot change your past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about your future."

- Roy T. Bennett

"tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life."

- Jill Bolte Taylor

"There will be calmness, tranquility when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed."

- Bruce Lee

"The mind is like water. When it’s turbulent, it’s difficult to see. When it’s calm, everything becomes clear."

- Prasad Mahes

"Breath is the power behind all things. I breathe in and know that good things will happen."

- Tao Porchon-Lynch

"Your strength is your calmness, in the clarity of your mind. Strength comes from putting the negative aside without reacting. Win in calmness, in consciousness, in balance."

- Yogi Amrit Desai

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

- Thomas Jefferson

"The day she let go of the things that were weighing her down was the day she began to shine the brightest."

- Katrina Mayer

"Calmness is the cradle of power."

- J.G. Holland

"Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax."

- Bryant McGill

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."

- William James

"You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway."

- Steve Maraboli

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."

- Anne Lamott

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows. It empties today of its strength."

- Corrie ten Boom

"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest taken between two deep breaths."

- Etty Hillesum

"You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you."

- Dan Millman

"More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate."

- Roy T. Bennett

"You don't have to see the whole staircase; just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The best entrepreneurs aren’t frazzled; they’re not tactic chasers. They’re calm. They’re systematic & they learn to say no."

- Ramit Sethi

"Slow Down, calm down, don’t worry, don’t hurry. Trust the process."

- Alexandra Stoddard

"Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy."

- Seneca

"Real leadership is calm. Real leadership is steady in moments of crisis. It is not hysterical. It is not exploitive. It is not dishonest."

- Brianna Keilar

"90% of what you’re stressing about right now won’t even matter a year from now. Take a deep breath."

- Mel Robbins

"It’s all about finding the calm in the chaos."

- Donna Karan

"It's always the mind that needs quietening and the heart that needs listening to."

- Rasheed Ogunlaru

"Don't chase the fast pace. Be calm and stay at peace, for it has 10X more power to take you places."

- Hiral Nagda

"The day she let go of the things that were weighing her down, was the day she began to shine the brightest."

- Katrina Mayer

"Calmness yields happiness."

- Maxime Lagacé

"Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within."

- Eckhart Tolle

"The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore."

- Cyril Connolly

"If the mind is calm, your spontaneity and honest thoughts appear. You become more spontaneous."

- Chade-Meng Tan

"Calm is the magic elixir that brings you to a place of balance, harmony, and peace."

- Donald Altman

"Quiet mind, quiet soul."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"Tranquility is found by abandoning our desires for things that are not in our control and focusing our efforts on those things that are in our control."

- Marc Libre

"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

"When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: ‘Just breathe.’"

- Yoko Ono

"You cannot perceive beauty, but with a serene mind."

- Henry David Thoreau

"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."

- Henry Miller

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

- Lao Tzu

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- Confucius

"If the problem can be solved, why worry? If the problem cannot be solved, worrying will do you no good."

- Shantideva

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future."

- Deepak Chopra

"Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

- Benjamin Franklin

"It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it."

- Hans Selye

"A very wise man once told me that you can’t look back — you just have to put the past behind you and find something better in your future."

- Jodi Picoult

"Don’t try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers every day without forcing their buds."

- Osho

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."

- Leo Buscaglia

"We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff."

- Robert Eliot

"Simply let experience take place very freely so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion."

- Tsoknyi Rinpoche

"Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything."

- Morihei Ueshiba

"The ability to keep a sense of calm amidst a world full of noise is becoming more and more difficult to achieve."

- Dane Krauss

"A man of calm is like a shady tree. People who need shelter come to it."

- Toba Beta

"Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace."

- Robert J. Sawyer

"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety."

- Aesop

"I never let myself get psyched out. My motto is, 'Stay calm and carry on.'"

- Mary Cain

"There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper."

- James Carroll

"It’s a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life."

- Paulo Coelho

"In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Wisdom yields calmness."

- Paul Graham

"Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea."

- Mikhail Lermontov

"Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm."

- Publilius Syrus

"Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."

- Dale Carnegie

"Stress is an important dragon to slay—or at least tame—in your life."

- Marilu Henner

"Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle."

- Bill Phillips

"Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries."

- Astrid Alauda

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you."

- John de Paola

"In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers."

- Fred Rogers

"Stress is the trash of modern life—we all generate it, but if you don’t dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life."

- Danzae Pace

"Worrying is like a rocking chair; it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere."

- Glenn Turner

"Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."

- Charles H. Spurgeon

"Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes."

- Etty Hillesum

"Don’t let your struggle become your identity."

- Ralston Bowles

"One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully, we will get it done quicker and with much less stress."

- Viggo Mortensen

"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."

- Peter Marshall

"The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude."

- Dennis S. Brown

"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."

- Thomas Carlyle

"There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy."

- Ralph H. Blum

"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath."

- Michael Caine

"Yesterday is ashes, tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly."

- Old Eskimo Proverb

"There can be no peace without but through peace within."

- W.E. Channing

"Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be."

- Wayne W. Dyer

"The elimination diet: Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame, and worry. Then watch your health, and your life, improve."

- Charles F. Glassman

"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answers."

- William S. Burroughs

"Be patient. Life will offer you another chance as soon as you find calm within, for abundance is born out of calmness."

- Leon Brown

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

- Confucius

"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer."

- William S. Burroughs

"Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles. It takes away today’s peace."

- Randy Armstrong

"In calmness lies true pleasure."

- Victor Hugo

"If you ask, ‘What is the single most important key to longevity?’ I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress, and tension."

- George Burns

"Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started."

- David Allen

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

- Benjamin Franklin

"You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Remember that stress doesn’t come from what’s going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what’s going on in your life."

- Andrew J. Bernstein

"For fast-acting relief, try slowing down."

- Lily Tomlin

"Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one."

- Hans Selye

"Sometimes there is no time to wait for the sea to calm down! If you have to reach your target, let your voyage start and let the storm be your path!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work."

- John Lubbock

"Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed."

- Channing Pollock

"We get so busy with modern technology and device we forget the tranquility that being out in nature offers."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."

- Chinese Proverb

"A samurai must remain calm at all times even in the face of danger."

- Chris Bradford

"A wild person with calm mind can make anything."

- Eric Maisel

"The best thing one can do when it is raining, is to let it rain."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation."

- Vannevar Bush

"When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace."

- Daniel Barenboim

"When one tunes in into nature’s frequency, life becomes change, change become hope!"

- Aniekee Tochukwu

"Cultivate outward calm and inward calm will come."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi

"There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation."

- Dennis Prager

"What worries you masters you."

- John Locke

"If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony."

- Xun Kuang

"The body is a vessel. Understand this and be free: We are not in our bodies; our bodies are inside us."

- Sean A. Mulvihill

"True success comes with inner peace."

- @orangebook

"Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive."

- Ziggy Marley

"The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it."

- Sydney J. Harris

"Understand this and be free: we are not in our bodies; our bodies are inside us."

- Sean A. Mulvihill

"Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe."

- Mark Twain

"Opportunity seldom rises with blood pressure."

- Jarod Kintz

"When in doubt, chill out."

- Tim Fargo

"The fear of losing can make a calm mind restless."

- Aniket S Sharma

"Stress is simply the adaptation of our bodies and minds to change."

- Peter G. Hanson

"Sometimes you just have to calm down a little bit and let the system work itself."

- Blake Griffin

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop."

- Ovid

"Keep calm and carry on."

- Winston S. Churchill

"Give your stress wings and let it fly away."

- Terri Guillemets

"Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them. I say it’s perfectly heartless you’re eating muffins at all, under the circumstances."

- Oscar Wilde

"Bill Gates can't control a high-level-energy dog, because his energy is very low, very calm. Very intellectual. A dog doesn't see that as leadership."

- Cesar Millan

"I have to stay calm, cool, and collected."

- Canelo Alvarez

"The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis."

- Franklin P. Jones

"Whoever & calm and sensible is insane."

- Rumi

"Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax."

"Today start your day with a smile, calmness of mind, coolness of emotions, and a heart filled with gratitude."

- Anonymous

"Emotional healing and down-regulation are not the same thing."

"Make peace with mind, it’s your best ally."

"Calm your mind. Life becomes much easier when you keep your mind at peace."

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly."

"Calm your mind life becomes more crystal clear."

"Don’t stress the ‘could haves.’ If it should have, it would have."

"Cheer up; the worst is yet to come. Simply put, quit worrying over the little stuff and wait for something really big."

"Not everything that weighs you down is yours to carry."