Quotes tagged ‘Control’

“If you want to keep your sanity, never let yourself become overwhelmed by things you can’t control.”

— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com

“People who like to be in control of things can have a hard time with intimacy. Intimacy is anarchic and mutual and definitionally incompatible with control. You seek to control things because you are afraid.”

— Jonathan Franzen, mbird.com

“Your mind has countless levels. At higher levels, you possess much more control and authority than you realize.”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

“I have no control over what people think of me but I have one-hundred percent control of what I think of myself.”

— Beth Ditto, theguardian.com

“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”

— Khalil Gibran, goodreads.com

“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”

— Deborah Reber, amazon.com

“So you know what I mean when I say that I don’t think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You’re just pulled to that person…whether it’s good for you or bound to break your heart.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“Your urge to control life controls you.”

— Mooji, amazon.com

“Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“Reframing love as something I get to create with someone I admire, rather than something that just happens to me without my control or consent, is empowering.”

— Mandy Len Catron, ted.com

“Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.”

— Chuck Klosterman, amazon.com

“If they cannot understand the wildness inside you, they will try to tame it and cage it. Find someone who appreciates the beauty of wild things like you.”

— Nikita Gill, meanwhilepoetry.tumblr.com

“People die at their dinner tables, die in their beds. They die squatting over their chamberpots. Everybody dies, sooner or later. Don’t worry about your death. Worry about your life. Take charge of your life, for as long as it lasts.”

— David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Petyr Baelish, Aidan Gillen, imdb.com

“Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”

— Veronica Roth, amazon.com

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

— Maya Angelou, amazon.com

“I’m in control by being out of control.”

— Nicolas Cage, the-talks.com

“I wanted to give up the idea I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

“Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.”

— A.S. King, amazon.com

“Every once in a while, she’ll get worked up and cry like that. But that’s OK. She’s letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you’re in big trouble.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.”

— B.F. Skinner, amazon.com