Quotes About Control

It's just not always that easy, right? To control what you think about. Who you think about.

Emotional fixations are like that—if you see them clearly, unflinchingly, for what they really are, you take the power away from them. They no longer control you. Confusion dawns as clarity.

Stepping back from our thoughts through mindfulness gives us the freedom to question the thoughts and so be less controlled by them.

But once we become aware that the sequence is starting, we can consciously and intentionally initiate a different, more constructive response.

Fortunately, even if we can't control the circumstances that lead to such thoughts, we have the ability to free our minds from their hold.

Thoughts have no power except the power we give them.

Thoughts have no solidity, but merely the appearance of solidity because of the power we give them.

Loss of control lies at the core of the vulnerability pattern. The distinctive emotional signature of vulnerability is an exaggerated fear that some catastrophe is about to strike.

By mindfully monitoring your thoughts rather than letting them dictate how you behave, you will start to win emotional freedom from your fears.

May I accept things as they are. I wish you happiness and well-being, but I cannot make your choices for you or control the way things are.

Becoming aware of these emotional habits is the first step, because unless we can catch and challenge them as they are triggered by the events of our lives, they will dictate how we perceive and react.

mindfulness practice improved the ability of the meditators' brains to control their negative emotions.

We can't understand the nature of reality until we let go of controlling our experience.

no matter how hard we try to control life, we have no sway over the bedrock realities of change, loss, and mortality.

Genetics is a bit like peeking behind a movie's special effects to find a deceptively simple and elegant system running the whole show.

This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism.

That's the trouble with grand passions, of course. You can never entirely cleanse yourself of them. It's best to avoid them altogether.

Someone from a dysfunctional family or someone with no education is less likely to be able to control the anger and frustrations that arise in everyday life.

NOTHING goes exactly as planned. Make your OWN destiny

When nature got angry, Paul said, there was nothing man could do about it. Nothing at all. In

I've never had any desire to be loved. I prefer being feared. It gets the same results but without any hugging.

She told me once she envied the women who lived back in the good old days who only had to worry about Indians and mountain lions killing their husbands. Something about those things being beyond a wife's control.

When I was mad, I didn't raise my voice. Instead, I lowered it to a register that you heard with your bones, not your ears.

The key to life," he told me once, "is to avoid the highs and the lows. It's the peaks and valleys that mess you up.