583 quotes found
“While you cant control everything, you can control more than you think, and you can live your life with a plan that will dramatically improve your chances of ending up at a destination you choose.”
“I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.”
“I lived willy-nilly. Without any sense of being part of the order of things. I lived by fragments, pieces, scraps, in the moment, at random, from incident to incident, as if buffeted by ebb and flo...”
“We don't like to admit it, but the idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything. All truly civilized people the ancients no less than...”
“A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.”
“We want greatness, but we prefer it tamed and on a leash short enough for us to control it, yet long enough to allow it to retain some remote yet diminished flavor of greatness.”
“How do you get rid of unhappiness? You must release yourself from the prison you have unknowingly placed yourself in. Come to terms with the fact that there are things that you cannot control. But,...”
“The church knows that an educated man is an unbeliever. That is why there is a continual struggle on the part of the clergy to adulterate education with superstition. To maintain their untenable po...”
“In other words, children's choices are their responsibility, and result from how they decide to meet their own needs. Once you understand this, you can learn to stop interpreting their choices as s...”
“When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression.”
“Many rabble-rousers for libertarianism, liberty and freedom are unwitting pawns of controllers they have never even considered.”
“Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth.”
“You want to be competent? she thought. You want to learn to be in control of what goes on around you, rather than just being pushed around? Then youll have to learn to deal with failure.”
“Damage control is part of life. It would be better to never make a mistake, but once it's made it's best to handle it with grace and humility. Sometimes that shows others more than our failures eve...”
“A relationship run by rules, instead of love is a relationship that is on the road to failure.”
“he who feeds you, controls you”
“If money controls our life, the devil will come into our life also to control that.”
“While understanding that we need this matrix to experience life on earth, we should also be able to enjoy a certain sense of detachment from it, and thus feel more empowered to make our own choices...”
“Eating a salad (in public) is an overweight persons attempt to appear in control.”
“So much of control is not authoritative action but mindful waiting.”
