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.
What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however... good or bad... is totally up to you.
Grass is greener at other people’s feet because they watered it. You need not to let your environment control you; you have what it takes to make it look beautiful!
Science is a form of arrogance control.
We all have control over what kind of person we are. Each word that comes out, each action that we take, defines us.
I don't want it to be attributed to a loss of control on my part. When I throw you out of the window, I want there to be no doubt the act was deliberate.
I revised my opinion that the girl was timid. She appeared to have her giant well under control and a disturbing ability to know what I was feeling.
The reason the police buy water cannons is not only to control rowdy crowds, but also because my penis is not for sale. However, it is for rent, but not in the fight against freedom.
Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion.
At home they thought of white people as a vague but powerful entity--like the forces that control the weather, that capable of destruction, that hidden from view.
