Tana French Quotes

I can't let myself act immature, in a way.

Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.

I like to think I'm a very mature person.

I'm too mature to be angry.

It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.

Over time you get to understand the nature of man and the environments you are dealing with, and you can't always allow emotions and temper to flare up because you're displeased with something, or you want to change it.

This isn't the same Johnny Gargano that is going to overreact to things and let his emotions get the best of him. In 2019, I'm a little calmer and more collected.

I know I've had an attitude that can explode, but I'm trying my best to not step out of bounds.

Fighting helped me learn that I can't let my emotions take over.

I have a mean streak and I am capable of cruelty. This does not mean that I am necessarily mean and cruel; instead, it means that I have to be vigilant about my capacity for cruelty and the mean bone in my body.

If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

I think it's okay to be afraid, but it's not okay to let it rule your life.

I don't want to go on stage with anger. And that's why I worked so hard to look within and change myself and evolve.

The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait

If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down.

To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.

Control yourself. Become someone who can handle this.

Don't be a baby about this. No tantrums.

It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.

Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.

I think it's almost necessary for most people to have the freedom to pull back, and then re-enter at an adult level, where they are neither playing the victim nor creating victims, but just participating in calm, adult behavior. Because an awful lot of churches just aren't there at adult Christianity, this seems to be the norm anymore.