Robert Plant Quotes

Accept what you cannot control.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.

That's just never been me - 'Oh, this is hurt; that's why I'm playing like this.' That's just not the type of person I am.

Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.

You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

No, nothing really upsets me.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them

You learn to not take things personally and to just let it roll off of you.

I'm fairly unemotional and tend not to get too excited when things go well and I tend not to get too depressed when they go badly.

If a person doesn't like me or doesn't like my game, OK, that's how they feel. Can't be upset with it.

I don't let people affect me.

I can only control what I can control at the end of the day, so some things you just can't allow to take your head the other way, some things happen for a reason.

I learned not to get too happy about good news or too distraught about bad.

I'm an emotional person, but it is not my helplessness.

I've learned since childhood that you control only the things that you can control. Everything else, let it take care of itself.

What happened in my past happened. What's the term - don't cry over spilled milk? That's the thing people don't understand. I'm all right. I configured myself into coming out on the other end OK. I can disassociate myself.

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.