Ray William Johnson Quotes

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

The Green Lanterns are very forward and very courageous, very forceful. The Red Lanterns are out of control, and they're not in their right mind because when we're angry or in rage, we say things and we do things we wouldn't normally do.

I struggle with control.

No sane man will dance.

... fluctuating emotions ... [lead] us to excesses of both intervention and abdication.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.

I'm a grounded person.

I adapt to things quickly, including good things, which I wish I could shut off sometimes.

Anything that controls my state of mind I never really want to do because I always want to be under control. That might be part of me being a Virgo. I never want to do something that stops me from being in control of who I am and my actions.

My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

If I have to be focused and watch what I say, then I have to be comfortable.

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

I can't always control my body the way I want to, and I can't control when I feel good or when I don't. I can control how clear my mind is. And I can control how willing I am to step up if somebody needs me.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.

I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.