Quotes About Ataraxy

#1. To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression.
I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.

Emil Cioran

#2. Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. The best fighter is never angry.

Lao-Tzu

#4. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

Lao-Tzu

#5. Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.

Kate Thompson

#6. Be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. Every missionary who is proclaiming the name and gospel of Jesus Christ will be blessed by daily feasting from the Book of Mormon.

Henry B. Eyring

#9. Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#10. Everything started as nothing.

Auliq Ice

#11. As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are - what others say is irrelevant.

Nic Sheff

#12. Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?

Brigham Young

#14. Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, cuz we were born this way bitch!

Lady Gaga

#15. But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in order to save this world, she neither noticed nor cared that all the people around her thought she was insane.

Kathy Acker

#16. Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.

Fran Lebowitz

#17. Having babies is a blessing, not a duty,

Betty Ford

#18. You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Marcus Aurelius

#19. We are in niche consumption mode, but 'niche' doesn't mean 'small' anymore. Niche can mean focused, and particularly with the Web, which is a global audience ... you can have something niche and still get 10 to 15 million views.

Chris Hardwick

#20. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

Bernard M. Baruch

#21. I talked for hours, and people listened because they hated the silence too. They were happy to create it, and then terrified by what they made. And so I came to understand the split at the root of the soul of all men.

Aliya Whiteley

#22. I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]

Kurt Vonnegut