“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
“This is the thing about life I’ve never really understood until now: we try so hard to control it, but bad things happen anyway. The only real control is an anti-control, a letting go.”— R.A. Nelson, amazon.com
“A mind out of control will play interesting tricks on you; directed, it's your greatest friend”— Tony Robbins, twitter.com
“Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind and emotions.”— Will Smith, goodreads.com
“We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.”— James Frey, amazon.com
“I like a strong man who can be in control and make decisions but who is sensitive and attentive. That is the perfect combination.”— Meaghan Rath, azquotes.com
“When you stress out, things will stress out around you. Always control your thoughts and pacify any unnecessary stress. Control your vibrations and you are the master of your own harmony.”— Suzy Kassem, amazon.com
“You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“You can’t always control your environment, but you CAN control your reaction to your environment.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“Love isn’t manipulation. Love isn’t control. Love isn’t confusion or high intense emotions of screaming and fighting but all you see is making up.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“You feel more out of control as you desperately try to control your thoughts more and more. It's like slapping the water and drowning.”— Robert L. Leahy Ph.D., psychologytoday.com
“When you are trying to stay in control of your wandering mind, you seek out work or other activities that take up every ounce of thought you have. You want to be fully immersed in an activity because that ensures that your mind won’t wander and obsess over your most irrational fears.”— Maya Kachroo-Levine, thoughtcatalog.com
“You see, my OCD serves as a weird kind of security blanket. It (very) temporarily calms my anxiety, makes me feel like I have control over the things I clearly cannot control.”— Cat Aleman, thoughtcatalog.com
“Having no control over your own mind, your thoughts, your worries is scary. It’s one of the worst feelings in the world, especially when everything could be perfectly fine, but your mind tricks you into believing everything’s so wrong.”— Hayley Greenwood, thoughtcatalog.com
“She's your partner. Not your servant, not your sex slave, and not your punching bag.”— Oliver Markus, amazon.com
“Sometimes we must yield control to others and accept our vulnerability so we can be healed.”— Kathy Magliato M.D., amazon.com
“It’s never worth it. It’s never worth being the one who breaks first. It’s never worth being the one waiting. You’re stronger than that. You’re not the one who waits around, but the one who doesn’t even notice when he texted. You’re the one in control, the one who doesn’t need his vacuous responses…”— Lauren Martin, elitedaily.com