Ironically, we often spend a great deal of time and effort trying to control our external conditions, while letting our internal reactions run wild.
Reality wasn't as important as people made it out to be; to Jude it was simply the physical state in which he found himself, an environment he had limited control over.
...My hands shook, and I stared at them. Another loss of control. That was the second time this month. Sooner or later, I’d break, if the department didn’t put me down first.
I don’t know. She was a sweet girl. As sweet as they come. I don’t know why I didn’t love her. It’s something you can’t really control.
Smothered by control a tormented soul trapped in his castle Her tears rolling mist proof she exists in Snow White Darkness.
those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control
I'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK ABOUT YOU. THE BEST YOU CAN DO IN LIFE IS NOT PISS YOURSELF OFF.
Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world.
All defensiveness stems from the need to be right and frustration over not being able to control others.
My caregiver mantra is to remember 'The only control you have is over the changes you choose to make.
Feelings can have a life of their own and you have very little direct control over them, except perhaps to make them worse.
That's the truth about people with obsessively organised plans: we're not trying to control everything in our lives. We're trying to block out the things we can't.
Whatever is our 'contribution' to a situation.. Is all that we can 'influence' to alter/improve the situation.. In our control therefore, is this INFLUENCE!
The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.
Considering that Timur had ignored every instrument of government except terror, it is remarkable his immediate successors managed to retain control of most of his empire.
She was endowed with great beauty for all those attributes that were outside her control, but it was said that in all characteristics for which she herself was responsible, she was utterly wicked
When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated.
But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.
Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
Real strength isn’t control. It’s knowing when to let go.
