Donna Tartt Quotes

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

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.

No sane man will dance.

The more externally chaotic the world becomes, the more we need sound internal logic, especially when it comes to our emotions.

People say, 'Jay, you're a great guy, you just had a couple of bad nights.' People that have themselves under control don't have a couple of bad nights like that. Plain and simple.

When I was much younger, I realized that when I was handling something very large, and I was on my own doing that, that my breathing rate would increase, and that would affect my ability to think as well as I normally would. So when that starts happening, I slow down.

I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

There's times where I get emotionally hijacked, then I'll try and force something and do something.

I don't focus well angry.

If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.

The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control.

Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body

Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.

Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind.

If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose yourself in the external world, and you won't lose yourself in your mind. Thoughts and emotions, fears and desires may still be there to some extent, but they won't take you over.

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.

Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.

I don't have a belief problem, I have a focusing weakness. I focus on what's loudest instead of what feels best.

I have a fear of letting my mind wander. I'm afraid it might not come back.