Quotes About Control

When you lose control of your body, you have just about lost all you have in this world.

An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Past events are already gone, and the future is yet to happen. It is only in the present that we can be in our life. The present is the joystick, controlling the moment, and thus the direction our life takes. Being with the breath is the most effective way of being in the present. It completely connects us with reality.

What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when we don't want to.

He thought film functioned the way fascism does, inserting itself into a culture so quietly that one barely has time to notice that everything has changed.

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of mortals.

Thus in the highest position there is the least freedom of action.

All our power lies in both mind and body; we employ the mind to rule, the body rather to serve; the one we have in common with the Gods, the other with the brutes.

Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Only a few prefer liberty- the majority seek nothing more than fair masters.

Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt. (Few men desire freedom, the greater part desire just masters.)

ita in maximâ fortunâ minima licentia est;

ubi intenderis ingenium valet; si libido possidet, ea dominatur, animus nihil valet.

Time is not my dictator," said the Queen Mother. "I dictate to time.

Time is not my dictator," said the Queen Mother. "I dictate to time. I want to meet people.

Always, my only hope and my only strength and my only way to cope has been an utter abandonment to God, knowing that if He doesn't work, if He doesn't move in the midst of us through His Holy Spirit, if He doesn't take my paltry fish and loaves and make it into more than it really is, I do not have a hope of making it. I relinquish my desire to control and yield this moment, this day and hope that He will show up.

When it was time to make breakfast, I moved into my Martha mode. I got irritated that I was the only one working while everyone else stumbled slowly into the kitchen. Before I knew it, I'd had a small explosion. I threw a wet blanket over the moods of everyone, and my good intentions were spoiled by my failure to control my spirit.

As long as we believe we can control life by trying, controlling, manipulating, putting pressure on life, we will live in constant exhaustion. We learn daily of our need for His Spirit to live through us because we are inadequate in ourselves. We learn to give up expectations that life will ever be perfect and to be content in the midst of the chaos.

There is nothing to fear except the power you give to your own demons.

All she had to protect herself against him was silence, the one skill in which she had become an expert.