Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

I don't really get angry any more.

I'm very patient with life.

With time, you learn to be calmer.

You do have to be patient. Control what you can control.

Patience is a mind that is able to accept fully and happily, whatever occurs. It is much more than just gritting our teeth and putting up with things. Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises, having given up the idea that things should be other than what they are.

Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.

The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass.

I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now.

I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.

I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Let's take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted.

You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.

I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

You don't have to be angry and become an ugly person.

Accept what you cannot control.

I always try to stay quiet and calm.

I am certainly not drama-free in my life, and I used to be a lot more feisty, but I have arrived at a place where I really try to not sweat the small stuff anymore.

I'm learning not to try to block everything.

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

He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.

One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated when I couldn’t change them. Instead of intrusion and passivity, may I suggest submission? Some people make the mistake of confusing “submission” with “weakness”, whereas it is anything but. Submission is a form of peaceful acceptance of the terms of the universe, including the things we are currently unable to change or comprehend.