Quotes About Control

We grasp one thing after another, and when we have grasped a thing, it is as if it possessed us. Not we possess it, but the opposite: whatever we have apparently acquired rules over us then. It is impressed upon us that a beneficent effect is to be had from acquiring a little that is firm and definite, that is to say, from growing accustomed and shaping oneself to laws and commands that prescribe a strict external discipline. Perhaps we're being stupefied, certainly we're being made small.

The root of the issue is pride. We think of ourselves as thoughtful and in control. We think of ourselves as wiser than the God who planned all things from beginning to end. We think we can see the future, disbelieving God and believing ourselves.

El origen del problema es el orgullo. Nos consideramos serios y en control. Nos creemos más sabios que el Dios que planeó todas las cosas desde el principio hasta el final. Pensamos que podemos ver el futuro, desobedeciendo a Dios y creyéndonos a nosotros mismos.

Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

Sensual pleasures are the whip natural selection uses to control us, to keep us in the thrall of its warped values system.

You can't control other people's behaviour, but you can conrol your responses to it.

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.

If the self remains in its citadel, anxious to control and heavily defended, it declines in the sources of vitality. To lay the citadel open, however, is to court danger: a danger inseparable from the enhancement of life.

He became an unimaginative woman's creation. Delilah had shorn his locks and assured him he looked much neater and cooler without them. He gave her his soul, and she transformed it into a cabbage.

Kristin realized that trying to decide when it was "safe" was no longer a reasonable method of birth control.

The apostle Paul wrote that he'd learned to be content in whatever circumstances he was in. I used to think I was content, but now I could see that my contentment was based upon how well I controlled the circumstances of my life, not upon my trust in a loving God.

I used to think I was content, but now I could see that my contentment was based upon how well I controlled the circumstances of my life, not upon my trust in a loving God.

Can't all beasts be tamed?

Cannot a Beast be tamed?

buying him clothes to improve his self-image • finding a therapist for him and begging him to go • financing expensive hobbies to help him use his time better • going through disruptive geographic relocations because "he's not happy here" • giving him half or all of our property and possessions so he won't feel inferior to us • providing him with a place to live so that he can feel secure

Oricât de proÅŸti cârpaci am fi în ale vieÅ£ii, fiecare simte nevoia s? deÅ£in? singur controlul propriei existenÅ£e. Când cineva ne ajut?, ne irit? puterea ÅŸi superioritatea acelei persoane implicate în ajutorul dat.

One of the implications of letting go of managing and controlling others is that you must relinquish the identity of being helpful, but ironically, that very act of letting go is frequently the single most helpful thing you can do for the one you love. The identity of being helpful is an ego trip, if you really want to be helpful let go of his problems and help yourself.

Once you can name something, you're conscious of it. You have power over it. You're in control. You own it.

F1 racer Mario Andretti said: 'If everything seems under control you're not going fast enough.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Nothing to extremes, everything in moderation.

If everything's under control, you're going too slow.

From today onwards, take complete control of your life. Decide, once and for all, to be the master of your fate. Run your own race. Discover your calling and you will start to experience the ecstasy of an inspired life.

administrar la mente es administrar la vida.