Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.

You have to find ways to find that center, to find that balance, to find sanity, because again, we are getting bigger, and people look at us that way. We have to find that new balance.

I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative.

When things begin to go negative, sometimes we just have to cover our ears and not let such circumstances influence us.

I think the inner strength that I have helps me stay calm.

I'm just trying to stay within myself every day and keep going.

I have the strength to remain calm in the face of change.

It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.

I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people’s craziness has not managed to make me crazy.

While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.

Have you ever known anyone who was happy? And was still in his right mind, I mean.

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!

Those who are unconquered in spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm-that is true happiness.

The thing to do is to keep your mind when the world around you is losing theirs.

I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.

The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.

In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane

Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful whenever we choose - a theory that many poor hypochondriacs are taunted with till they are nigh driven mad - yet, on the other hand, no sane mind is ever left without the power of self-discipline and self-control in a measure, which measure increases in proportion as it is exercised.

Self-esteem does not mean feeling good all the time. Self-esteem means loving yourself even when you feel badly...even when you make a mistake. It means loving yourself even when you're depressed. It means that you accept yourself fully.

I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.

By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good if you could practice meditation as much as you can, as much as physically and psychologically possible. You could become more clear and sane, and you could also influence the national neurosis in that way.

Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.

A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.

Just because your world is falling apart doesn't mean you have to fall apart. When everything seems crazy, you be calm. Don't let the outer chaos you are facing get inside of you.

When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.