Daphne Guinness Quotes

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.

I don't want sadness or happiness to affect my life.

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

You can't get emotional about your work.

Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

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

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel.

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.

Yogis have human emotions, but the thing is not to let anger and doubt become an obsession.

As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that choices are possible; we can say yes or we can say no. It is profoundly liberating.

I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?

Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.

It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility.

It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it.

Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously I lost track of what I was taught.

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.