Quotes About Control

The aging process is more traumatic for those who think they can control the passage of time.

There is nothing wrong with anxiety. Although we cannot control God's time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the thing we are waiting for as quickly as possible. Or to drive away whatever is causing our fear.... Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it-just as we have learned to live with storms.

But the great wisdom of life is to realize that we can be the masters of the things that try to enslave us

The art of sex is the art of controlled abandon.

because time isn't something that always proceeds at the same pace. It is we who determine how quickly time passes.

Well, it's a choice like any other, even though it's stupid to believe we can control the world and to allow ourselves to be lulled into a false sense of security that leaves us totally unprepared for life; because then, when you least expect it, an earthquake throws up a range of mountains, a bolt of lightning kills a tree that was preparing for its summer rebirth, or a hunting accident puts paid to the life of an honest man.

We are all the same instincts-- Good and Evil struggled between us. It was all a matter of control. And choice. Nothing more and nothing less.

At some point of our life, we will lose control of everything surrounds us and we will be controlled by the fate. That is the world's biggest lie.

We are all prisoners of the sands of time, and we have no control over them.

Cinta adalah kekuatan yang tak akan pernah ditundukkan. Kalau kita berusaha mengendalikannya, cinta akan menghancurkan kita. Kalau kita berusaha mengurungnya, cinta akan memperbudak kita. Kalau kita mencoba memahaminya, cinta akan meninggalkan kita dalam kebingungan.

Any action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.

We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear

Good & Evil struggled between us. It was all a matter of control. And choice. Nothing more ang nothing less.

What's the world's greatest lie?" the boy asked, completely surprised. "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

The outer self, that which you believe yourself to be. is nothing more than a limiting place, a stranger to the true self. This is why people have such a hard time listening to what their souls are telling them; they try to control the soul so that it does exactly as they have already decided - their wants. their hopes, their futures.

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you. You're already familiar with the latter experience, allowing yourself to be swept along by fears, neuroses, insecurity, for all we have self-destructive tendencies.

Keep sitting back until your backside softly touches down on the box. You must not fall even an inch! Control your descent all the way! You will feel tightness on the top of your thighs and a stretch in your hamstrings if you do it right.

To make sure you're swinging without using your arms, attach a lifting strap or very short rope [or a towel] to a kettlebell... "Try a few swings. If you're driving the weight up with your hips, the bell, rope, and arm should all be in one line throughout the rep. If you're using your arms, your hands will rise up above the strap and bell.

Drive your hips explosively, but don't rush the kettlebell. Let it catch up as your hip drive goes up your body like a wave. Hurrying the kettlebell is like punching with the arm—ineffective.

Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do.

Who rules well is always hated.

Times were chosen and appointed. If one forced them, they were wrong.

It was the secret of her power in this house that she never allowed her will to be felt as absolute. She gave time and the promise of an end, and then she used the time to shape events to her own end.

if China is not our suzerain!