Short-term thinking makes people desperate, ungenerous, impulsive. Long-term thinking makes people calm, gracious, controlled. The mighty pyramids and cathedrals were built by civilizations with a long time horizon, so it is with the life of a great man.

The Stoic Emperor

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La respiración lenta es como un ancla en medio de una tormenta emocional: el ancla no hará que la tormenta se vaya, pero te mantendrá firme hasta que pase.

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Silence is beautiful, not awkward. The human tendency to be afraid of something beautiful is awkward.

Reduce the speed and intensity to reduce stress. A flower blooms slowly, in calmness, and in serenity.

Debasish Mridha

You can't force raging water to be calm. You have to leave it alone and let it return to its natural flow. Emotions are the same way.

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