583 quotes found
“Consistent happiness is an art - An art that involves taking and maintaining control of which thoughts you give attention to and which thoughts you disregard”
“Media is so influenceable, yet so influent. Whoever controls the media controls the society, and its opinion.”
“Take yourself out of the center of other people's universe - it will free you up and let the universe turn more easily.”
“She waited for him with shallow breaths, head thrown back, eyes half closed, completely exposed in her trust of him, and it unravelled the last thread holding him together.”
“The magic that confounds them is humanity. The naturally occurring, slow acting, unpredictably potent product of conscious minds connecting. These madmen want to synthesise love. They want to manuf...”
“I roll over on my back and clutch the book against my chest; then I chuck it on the carpet. It's too heavy to rest on me, too full of history. Not all of it is bad. Some of the memories make me smi...”
“Hang onto your humanity with all you have. Cherish it. Remember, you are the one in control of your destiny and dont let anyone else tell you otherwise.”
“Whoever controls the money controls you.”
“The world, control phones, don't you think??? But not only phones everything, the world time and how is build make you angry and nerves. Good moments pass fast, bad pass slow, but WHY?? It's th rig...”
“You have such an odd relationship to your environment," mused the man. "Such a paranoid relationship. You seem intent on existing in smaller and smaller spaces, filled with more and more gadgets, w...”
“Having no need to judge, control, react, so forgiveness does not even arise.”
“It is hard enough to face the moral law even with the revelation that the divine justice and divine mercy are conjoined. It offends our pride to be forgiven, terrifies it to surrender control.”
“No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are not obliged to wander in the dark, or that everything will be proved...”
“Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you.”
“To become more like Jesus we must understand that the only growth we can be in charge of is our own.”
“For a long while they are silent, thinking about abstract things like control and what it means to love an institution that is defined by loss, because a library is such a space and their duty is t...”
“I can't tell you how many times in my life I have been told that I have control issues. Historically, this statement has brought me annoyancethe kind of irritation that can only be described as a s...”
“Do not seek to control other souls. Seek to know your sacred soul”
“Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.”
“Words that you use determine and control what happens in life.”