Today I will be the master of my emotions.
The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
To succeed in the game of power, you have to master your emotions. But even if you succeed in gaining such self-control, you can never control the temperamental dispositions of those around you. And this presents a great danger.
Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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.
The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.
Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.
Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.
Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.
Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.
Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.
I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
It is only through meditation that slowly slowly more consciousness is created within you, more light is created; more watchfulness, witnessing, happens. And that is the miracle of awareness: if you become aware of anger you become a master of anger. Then it is up to you whether to be angry or not. You are absolutely free to be this way or that way.
Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.
When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.
As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.
Don't let your feelings be a God to you.
It is not the man who is beside himself, but he who is cool and collected,--who is master of his countenance, of his voice, of his actions, of his gestures, of every part of his play,--who can work upon others at his pleasure.
The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.
Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
