Composure Quotes
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“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”
― The Infinity Sign
― The Infinity Sign
“Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.”
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“There are better people in the world, do not let the worst do the worst to you, you deserve the best in life.”
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“The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.”
― So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
― So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
“Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.”
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“A lady must retain always her composure. Even in a rainstorm, she must appear joyous and dry. When she loses her composure, then the respect of her peers and her staff will follow in short order.”
― The Luxe
― The Luxe
“With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.”
― Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
― Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
“composure,n.
You told me anyway, even though I didn’t want to know. A stupid drunken fling while you were visiting Toby in Austin. Months ago. And the thing I hate the most is knowing how much hinges on my reaction, how your unburdening can only lead to me being burdened. If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it.
You wait for my response.”
― The Lover's Dictionary
You told me anyway, even though I didn’t want to know. A stupid drunken fling while you were visiting Toby in Austin. Months ago. And the thing I hate the most is knowing how much hinges on my reaction, how your unburdening can only lead to me being burdened. If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it.
You wait for my response.”
― The Lover's Dictionary
“He’d pushed it back, where he’d kept the thought for weeks, but it wouldn’t stay. Wouldn’t stop. Wouldn’t let him go.”
― Through the Ever Night
― Through the Ever Night
“To live with tremendous and proud composure; always beyond —. To have and not to have one's affects, one's pro and con, at will; to condescend to them, for a few hours; toseatoneself on them as on a horse, often as on an ass — for one must know how to make use of their stupidity as much as of their fire. To reserve one's three hundred foregrounds; also the dark glasses; for there are cases when nobody may look into our eyes, still less into our "grounds." And to choose for company that impish and cheerful vice, courtesy. And to remain master of one's four virtues: of courage, insight, sympathy, and solitude.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance."
"Eh?" said Syme, staring.
"The soldier must be calm in the thick of the battle," pursued the policeman. "The composure of an army is the anger of a nation.”
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
"Eh?" said Syme, staring.
"The soldier must be calm in the thick of the battle," pursued the policeman. "The composure of an army is the anger of a nation.”
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked.... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.”
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“As soon as anger knocks at one’s door, wisdom prepares to leave.”
― Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
― Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“- 'Poise is perfect balance, an equanimity of body and mind, complete composure whatever the social scene. Elegant dress, immaculate grooming, and perfect deportment all contribute to the attainment of self-confidence.' -”
― The Girls of Slender Means
― The Girls of Slender Means
“Idly, Wick wondered if he should feel insulted. Then he decided there really wasn't any room for considering an insult with all the fear running rampant in his mind. Maybe he was quiet on the outside, but he knew he was running around screaming inside his thoughts.”
― The Quest for the Trilogy: A Rover Novel of Three Adventures
― The Quest for the Trilogy: A Rover Novel of Three Adventures
“His controlled composure was making Maddox feel edgy. He could be one of those people who seemed perfectly calm but then randomly snapped.”
― The Amateurs
― The Amateurs
“She drew in a deep breath, mastering herself. “Forgive me. My nerves are worked to pieces.”
“And still you are one of the most composed women of my acquaintance,” I told her truthfully.
“Composure that is hard won and the result of long practice,” she assured me. “I learnt long ago that when is only half-British, the other half will be blamed for every evil of temper or habit. I schooled myself in deportment, so that the part of me that is Egyptian may never be held up as a pattern for degradation or vice. I became more British than any Englishwoman I knew. And still, every syllable I speak, every gesture, every thought is examined by society. I could take tea with the Queen at Windsor everyday and twice on Sundays and I would still not be English enough for some.” She spoke without bitterness, but there was a fatigue to her resignation and I began to understand the weight she carried with her at all times.”
― A Treacherous Curse
“And still you are one of the most composed women of my acquaintance,” I told her truthfully.
“Composure that is hard won and the result of long practice,” she assured me. “I learnt long ago that when is only half-British, the other half will be blamed for every evil of temper or habit. I schooled myself in deportment, so that the part of me that is Egyptian may never be held up as a pattern for degradation or vice. I became more British than any Englishwoman I knew. And still, every syllable I speak, every gesture, every thought is examined by society. I could take tea with the Queen at Windsor everyday and twice on Sundays and I would still not be English enough for some.” She spoke without bitterness, but there was a fatigue to her resignation and I began to understand the weight she carried with her at all times.”
― A Treacherous Curse
“When you have mastery in combat, you not only meet a fight with composure and skill, you become an artist of movement, expressing yourself powerfully in the immediate, unfolding present with absolute freedom and certainty.”
― Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
― Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
“If you wish to know things better and understand their workings more profoundly, make sure that you keep yourself at a certain distance from them, like presbyopic eyes that demand a particular range in order to see clearly.”
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“Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance and you shall then be ready to part from them with equal composure”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“There's undeniable strength in remaining calm and composed in any situation—it's often the least anticipated response.”
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“I'm not going to get mad. I have control over my emotions. Little babies complain about video games. Men get back up and do it again and just fucking win, so that's what I'm going to do.”
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“I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something that has no form and no color - something which exists before all forms and colors appear. This is a very important point. No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea. You strive for a perfect faith in order to save yourself. But it will take time to attain such perfect faith. You will be involved in an idealistic practice. In constantly seeking to actualize your ideal, you will have no time for composure. But if you are always prepared for accepting everything we see as something appearing from nothing, knowing that there is some reason why a phenomenal existence of such and such form and color appears, then at that moment you will have perfect composure.”
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
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