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A pause with a purpose

Before choosing a quote about calm, name what you need: fewer competing tasks, time to check a fact, or space to decide how to reply. A useful pause has a purpose; it does not require you to feel peaceful or ignore a problem.

For example, an irritating message arrives while you are busy. Save a draft instead of replying immediately. Write down the question you need to answer, one fact you still need, and when you will return to the draft. On rereading it, check whether the wording makes your request clear. This is an everyday example, not a promise that the disagreement will disappear.

Try reading one thought below against that situation. Does it leave room for your decision, or turn calm into another demand? Keep a sentence that helps you choose a next step; you can reject one that oversimplifies what happened.

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I am happy because I want nothing from anyone.
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I am happy because I want nothing from anyone.
Albert Einstein

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The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible.
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The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible.
Albert Einstein

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I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
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I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein

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Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible.
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Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible.
Albert Einstein

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I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone.
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I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone.
Albert Einstein

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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment.
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment.
Albert Einstein

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Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing.
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Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing.
Albert Einstein

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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
William Wordsworth

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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Abraham Lincoln

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When I was 15-years-old, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be perfectly proportioned I would need twenty-inch arms to match the rest of me.
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When I was 15-years-old, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be perfectly proportioned I would need twenty-inch arms to match the rest of me.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

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