Tiger Woods Quotes

Sometimes a mind is like a mouth: you just got to shut it.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with logic. True power is restraint. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching.

He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

Protect me from what I want.

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

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

I try not to get too far ahead of myself.

I control my anger.

There's definitely times when I'm tempted to look at the future, like any of us are. I'd be lying if that wasn't the case. But you have to reel back in and stay in the present.

Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind.

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

In meditation we can watch the itch instead of scratching it.

This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.