Any relationship is under the control of the person who cares the least, or, while it takes two people to begin a relationship, it only takes one to end it.
INTEREST. Here is the key to the whole thing. If and when you are truly interested in what you are doing, or are about to do, then you will center your attention on it with little or no effort, and almost irrespective of the attendant conditions.
Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily — weak people, in other words...
Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize you can actually control it, and I know this because I've done it before.
We may train ourselves to be adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome or steering events as they occur must be relinquished. Chaos rules it all.
No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.
Consistent happiness is an art - An art that involves taking and maintaining control of which thoughts you give attention to and which thoughts you disregard
Men started praying to you, begging for a taste. That legend of yours spiraled out of control. You gave the people hope. They were told you were all they ever needed.
Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.
A charging black rhinoceros is nothing to mess with. When it is headed straight toward you, it is the ultimate exercise in sphincter control. In my case, it was a strange bit of weather that caused one to charge me.
There are times when we find ourselves pitching downwards, out of control. Yet God is always nearby...
I was Marked by a very cute boy with terrible impulse control. I don't remember because I was basically unconscious but everyone was mad at him when I woke up. The end, love Clary.
Contemporary feminism is enamored with consumer choice and has fully accepted it as a substitute for freedom.
Maybe it's because he never had any control over what was happening to him as a boy. Being late was somehow a way of taking charge.
Because 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.
Some people have abusive, negative, controlling tendencies in their blood; they are wired for havoc, bickering and deception.
When you release yourself from the need for approval and control you can stop punishing yourself and others.
Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion.
People who are out of control desperately need to observe your healthy boundaries in-play to learn from your example.
You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.
A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bare to lose.
