Quotes About Mastering Life

#1. Befriending life is less a matter of knowledge than a question of wisdom. It is not about mastering life, controlling it or exerting our will over it, no matter how well intentioned our will may be. Befriending life is more about harmlessness than it is about control.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#2. 'Sons of Anarchy' has the perfect combination of character and action.

Christopher Golden

#3. The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is a successful variant of a group identity and is in accord with its space-time and life plan.

Erik Erikson

#4. And what's life if it isn't invention? Starting with inventing yourself.

John Le Carre

#5. Lift every voice and sing.

James Weldon Johnson

#6. Mastering my mind one thought at a time.

Nikki Rowe

#7. You must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work ... You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill. That's the secret of success.

Chef Jiro

#8. Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisition of power.

Robert Greene

#9. In the history of a soul's evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.

Virchand Gandhi

#10. Horizontal" control maintains coherence across all the activities in which you are involved.
"Vertical" control, in contrast, manages thinking up and down the track of individual topics and projects.

David Allen

#11. The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Paul Klee

#12. I can live without love. And with that she left Westley alone.

William Goldman

#13. When you, awareness, are mastered by the deepest that you know the truth of, then you are no longer awareness. You are oneness aware mastering your self and your life.

John De Ruiter

#14. You have friends and you have enemies, the trick is mastering that the only difference between the two is; your friends will plot your downfall without you realising.

Keysha Jade

#15. Reporting was imitation life, imitation expertise, imitation worldliness, imitation intimacy; mastering a subject only to forget it, befriending people only to drop them.

Jonathan Franzen

#16. Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

Nathaniel Branden

#17. Mastering the art of asking questions is essential to creativity and innovation. A More Beautiful Question should be standard reading for all aspiring design thinkers as well an inspiration to those searching for a life of curiosity and meaning.

Tim Brown

#18. You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude
toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather
than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy

#19. Fun is essential to mastering the serious side of life. It provides the balance that keeps us sane

Peter Nicholls