Ander Herrera Quotes

You can't let the highs get too high and you can't let the lows get too low.

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

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

I don't really get too high or too low. I think when you have a big tournament, that's the important thing: managing emotion.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

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

You must preserve supreme calm in the midst of all agitation, never appearing disturbed or anxious about anything that may occur.

Don't get carried away when things go well, don't get carried away when they go badly.

Be it high or low, it doesn't matter. I need to stay calm and neutral all the time.

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

I don't ever want to get too high or too low.

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.

Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it!

Vow to seek a Calm Inner Response to the Circumstances of your Life

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

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

Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.

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.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

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.

There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal.

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

I like working emotions that can take you beyond your life. And yet you have to resist them in order remain within your life. Otherwise, you're burned. I like that fight. It's more of a fight with yourself.