Quotes About Self-mastery

It should be a man's task, says the Imitation, 'to overcome himself, and every day to be stronger than himself.

When thou hast been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in a manner, quickly return to thyself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts; for thou wilt have more mastery over the harmony by continually recurring to it.

thou wilt cease to be held by pains and pleasures, and to be a slave to the vessel, which is as much inferior as that which serves it is superior: for the one is intelligence and deity; the other is earth and corruption.

The directing mind is that which wakes itself, adapts itself, makes itself of whatever nature it wishes, and makes all that happens to it appear in the way it wants.

Love the discipline you know, and let it support you. Entrust everything willingly to the gods, and then make your way through life—no one's master and no one's slave.

No mostrar nunca la apariencia de cólera ni de ninguna otra pasión

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet

It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be disturbed in our soul, for things themselves have no natural power to form our judgments.

U svojim napadajima bijesa neka ti je ova misao pri ruci, jer je blagi spokoj daleko ljudskiji i stoga više muževan. Blagi posjeduju snagu, ?vrsto?u i hrabrost- ne oni uvrije?eni i pla?ljivi. Što je ?vrš?i nadzor nad emocijama, to si bliže mo?i. Gnjev je znak slabosti, jednako kao i patnja. Oboje su ranjeni, oboje su se predali.

The only power that exists is inside ourselves…

And I saw that if I were to maximize every experience available to me, I must exert my own powers over my learning.

If she[…] had known how much her first half-inch beginning to let go would take - and how long her noticing and renouncing owning and her turning her habits, and beginning the slimmest self-mastery whose end was nowhere in sight - would she have begun?

I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.

He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master [Acheron]

For most of my life I have known how to control my feelings. If you can control your feelings, you can pretty much control your whole world. It's amazingly effective.

A person with power controls their life and their destiny. They have a mastery. Their moments are aware moments in this world, never wasted.

No one runs your life unless you let them. And you have more power than you think.

The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends... then self mastery can be sought.

As Washington, Adams, and Jefferson reached the cusp of adulthood, each exhibited a passion for independence. Each hungered for emancipation from the entanglements of childhood and sought to carve out an autonomous existence. The handmaiden to each young man's zeal for self-mastery was a propulsive ambition that drove him to yearn for more than his father had attained, for more even than his father had ever hoped to achieve.

From all which it is evident, that though the things of nature are given in common, yet man, by being master of himself, and " proprietor of his own person, and the actions or labour of it, had still in himself the great foundation of property;" and that which made up the greater part of what he applied to the support or comfort of his being, when invention and arts had improved the conveniencies of life, was perfectly his own, and did not belong in common to others.

He who angers you conquers you.

Do not be downcast, but marshal all your powers; Make an effort; be the master of yourself! Practice the equality of self and other; Practice the exchange of self and other.

Às vezes me sinto um louco falando para pessoas falsamente saudáveis – confessou Marco Polo. – Uma voz solitária gritando que, se treinamos dirigir carros, empresas, operar computadores, deveríamos treinar dirigir a emoção e gerenciar nossos pensamentos para sermos minimamente autores de nossa história. Mas simplesmente nenhuma escola ensina isso. Deixe sua mente irresponsavelmente solta que o risco de se acidentar e adoecer será grave.

Control of your mind even gives you the power to stop pain