H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

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

I can control what I can control. I just focus on me, and that's it.

Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

My mom raised me to never have anything control me.

Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

I constantly push my body to meet what my mind wants me to be able to do.

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

I never let myself get desperate.

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.

If you die, you're not a failure.

I think one of the biggest things is I wasn't spoiled as a kid. I got what I needed. I didn't always get what I wanted. But it's good to have what you need.