Quotes About Control

When we were enslaved, we could imagine freedom, but now that we are free, how will we imagine subjection?

Reason is captive in the hands of the passions, as a weak man in the hands of an artful woman.

?nsanlar?, kendi cinslerinden biri üzerinde kudret ve salahiyetlerini denemek kadar tatl? sarho? eden ne vard?r? Hele bunu yapmak f?rsat?, birtak?m ince hesaplar dolay?s?yla, ancak muayyen baz? kimselere kar?? kendini gösterirse

A?k muhakkak ki bir hastal?k... A??k oldu?umuzu ilk zamanlarda kendimizden bile saklamak istememiz zaten bunun bir hastal?k oldu?unu gösteriyor... Biz mütemadiyen: De?ilim, de?ilim!.. diyoruz. Ve onu ancak, kolumuzu k?m?ldatamayacak kadar bize hakim oldu?u zaman kabul ediyoruz.

If you put it up, I'll just take it down again." His voice lowered to a throaty hum, "And you know what happens when I take your hair down.

Reactivity is enslavement. Responsibility is freedom. When you are able to create yourself the way you want, you can create your life the way you want as well. Your outer life may not be a hundred percent in your control, but your inner life always will.

If you tell yourself you don't want to think a certain thought, that is precisely the first thing your mind will produce! That is the nature of the human mind.

She trembled—not in fear. Then she asked, "What will you do to me?" The man said, "Well, lady, it's your dream!" What's happening in your head is your dream. At least your dream should happen the way you want it, shouldn't it? Even if the world doesn't happen the way you want it, at least your thoughts and emotions should happen the way you want them to.

To be human means you can mold situations you are living in the way you want them.

Even if the world doesn't happen the way you want it, at least your thoughts and emotions should happen the way you want them to.

If you can use it when you want and put it aside when you don't, the mind can be a fantastic tool.

The only thing that stands between you and your wellbeing is a simple fact: you have allowed your thoughts and emotions to take instruction from the outside rather than the inside.

Once you take charge of your inner life, there is no such thing as stress.

Shiva does not spell religion. Shiva spells responsibility – our ability to take our very life process in our hands. When

Your destiny is written by you unconsciously. If you have mastery over your physical body, fifteen to twenty percent of your life and destiny will be in your hands. If you have mastery over your mind, fifty to sixty percent of your life and destiny will be in your hands. If you have mastery over your life energies, a hundred percent of your life and destiny will be in your hands.

Your outer life may not be a hundred percent in your control, but your inner life always will.

Whatever is in your hands, you keep that in perfect condition; then what is beyond you will anyway happen. But people are always trying to work at what is beyond them, not taking care of what is in their hands.

If one has mastery over one's vyana, one can leave one's body at will.

In any organization, someone must be the boss. If it's even just one person, you've got to be the boss of yourself.

Always, every now and then, I had given her a hard time, just to keep her in line. Every once in a while a woman seems to need, in fact wants this too.

The political philosophy of black nationalism only means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community. The time when white people can come in our community and get us to vote for them so that they can be our political leaders and tell us what to do and what not to do is long gone.

Revolutions are fought to get control of land, to remove the absentee landlord and gain control of the land and the institutions that flow from that land.

I was a zombie then—like all Muslims—I was hypnotized, pointed in a certain direction and told to march.

The more hate was permitted to lash out when there were ways it could have been checked, the more bold the hate became