Quotes About Control

Humility and obedience are two painfully misunderstood virtues that are really the arts of listening. Humility involves the refusal to coerce, the rejection of all attempts to control others.

We modern people are problem-solvers, but the demand for answers crowds out patience—and perhaps, especially, patience with mystery, with that which we cannot control.

I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

Peace comes when you stop trying to control the world around you and instead take responsibility for the world within you.

Debemos disparar la flecha y reconocer que hay cosas que están fuera de nuestro control, y debemos golpear la flecha y aceptar responsabilidad por lo que sí está en nuestro control. Debemos disparar y golpear, pero lo que no debemos hacer es detenernos.

We have no control over the reality that in this world we will have trouble, but we have control over whether we decide to allow our hearts to be troubled.

We are called to fear only God. There is an important reason for this. What we fear is what we're subject to; our fears define our master. Where there is no fear, there is no control.

The warrior knows that peace does not come from control but from relinquishing control. Everything in life that you try to control that is outside your control will steal from you your peace. You must choose to take hold of what you can control and let go of what you cannot.

fear has a direct object, anxiety is fear without an object. We experience anxiety when we feel overwhelmed by life. In order to reduce our anxiety, we often create smaller and smaller boundaries to give us some sense of control over our lives.

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

Why do these dumb fucks keep guns around the house? They make the world as ruinous as they imagine it is.

Recuérdalo: que el terror no domine tu mente.

We don't like to be intimate alone. Some couples take this one step further, confusing intimacy with control. What passes for care is actually convert surveillance. .. When the impulse to share becomes obligatory, when personal boundaries are no longer respected, when only the shared space of togetherness is acknowledged and private space is denied, fusion replaces intimacy and possession co-opts love.

We ground ourselves in familiarity, and perhaps achieve a peaceful domestic arrangement, but in the process we orchestrate boredom. The verve of the relationship collapses under the weight of all that control. Stultified, couples are left wondering, "Whatever happened to fun? What ever happened to excitement, to transcendence, to awe?

While love promises us relief from aloneness, it also heightens our dependence on one person. It is inherently vulnerable. We tend to assuage our anxieties through control. We feel safer if we can contract the distance between us, maximize the certainty, minimize the threats, and contain the unknown.

One of the powerful attributes of secrecy is its function as a portal for autonomy and control.

I help them learn how to relinquish control intentionally, as a means of personal growth and self-discovery

As the adage says: "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.

Because our culture so highly values an illusion of self-control and control of circumstance, we become abject when contemplating mentation that seems more changeable, less restrained and less controllable, more open to outside influence, than we imagine our own to be. — Judi McGruder

visto che il Potere non permette che si preparino uomini che pensino agli uomini ma solo uomini che pensino al Potere, pensino soprattutto a difendere il Potere; lo Stato pensa a se stesso e pensa alla gente solo per quel tanto e nei modi che permettono al Potere di esserci e sopravvivere.

il Potere non permette che si preparino uomini che pensino agli uomini ma solo uomini che pensino al Potere, pensino soprattutto a difendere il Potere; lo Stato pensa a se stesso e pensa alla gente solo per quel tanto e nei modi che permettono al Potere di esserci e sopravvivere.

Your hold on me is great. But the universe is greater, and what I need is greater still.

What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.

Parecía especialmente cruel, por tanto, el que tres días después, en el hospital, el médico entrará en su cuarto y le dijera que padecía algo de lo que jamás podría curarse, y que lo único que podía hacer era controlarlo, como si el control, para un chico de dieciocho años que quiere vivir a tumba abierta, no fuera la negación misma de la vida.