Quotes About Control

Mientras la ambición y las ansias de poder gobiernen el corazón de algunos hombres, no habrá paz duradera en la tierra. La guerra, por desgracia, es condición humana.

The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.

Could it be that toxic mimics are toxic because they ignore responsibility, they ignore relationship, they ignore presence, they substitute control for fluidity and choice?

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with magic. True power is restraint. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

You've gotta keep control of your time, and you can't unless you say no. You can't let people set your agenda in life.

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.

Managers who want to expand their domain at the expense of owners might better consider a career in government.

Magic is the cheat codes for the world. Sending a signal to reality's operating system, see?

People. You're not crazy if there really are robot insects listening to every word you say. Someone said, I fucking told you

So how are you going to stop me? I stopped you two minutes ago, look down.

The formulation of policy toward China, as with most issues confronting the Reagan administration, became a contest between conservative ideologues (let Reagan be Reagan) and pragmatic advisers struggling for control of the mind of a president who was rarely engaged intellectually.

How pitiful it must be when the flesh gains dominion. Sin has slain the spirit:

Only those who are subject to authority can be authority.

Authority in the world is being increasingly undermined until at the end all authorities will be overthrown and lawlessness shall rule.

que cedamos todos los derechos de nosotros mismos y nos sometamos al señorío absoluto de Jesucristo en cada área de nuestras vidas.

If you are going to be calm in the midst of chaos, there's something you must stop doing. When life gets difficult, when it feels as though you are being squeezed by the pressures all around you, you must refuse to panic. Jesus was not telling His disciples they were not

That's the distinction. It's not wrong to be distressed, to be troubled, to be frightened, or to have those emotions. It is wrong when those emotions control you. It's wrong when your anguish is not in keeping with the facts clearly given to you in Scripture. That's what Jesus was telling these disciples. Do not allow your distress to keep you from thinking biblically about your situation.

Feelings are not just emotions that happen to you. Feelings are reactions you choose to have.

Syllogism ? Major premise: I can control my thoughts. Minor premise: My feelings come from my thoughts. Conclusion: I can control my feelings.

as you realize that you are responsible for your reactions in any given moment, others will cease to have any power or control over you.

no one can make us upset without our consent

Only you can improve your lot or make yourself happy. It is up to you to take control of your own mind, and then practice feeling and behaving in the ways that you choose.

Stop fighting, eschew violent thoughts and deeds, and give up trying to control others or the world. Stay humble; don't interfere; respect your creative genius, as well as that of others; and, above all, return to your invisible Source and shed your troublesome ego while you're still alive and incarnated as one of the 10,000 things. If you do all of this, you will naturally live a long life in joyful, nonjudgmental peace.

Change your thinking, take responsibility for everything in your life.