#control

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it. ↗

— Epictetus

#control #philosophy #attitude

Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#character #self-control #attitude

I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead. ↗

— John Fowles

#control #kidnap #beauty

We're like drunks in a barroom. No one's listening because everyone is too busy thinking about what they're going to say next, and absolutely prove that the current speaker is so full of shit he squeaks. ↗

— Stephen King

#business

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#control #greatness #power #words #change

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. ↗

— David Richo

#control #humility #change

The world you once knew is no more for you. ↗

— Travis Luedke

#change #control #domination #nightlife #submission

We have a need to control our destiny, but destiny is uncontrollable. We struggle against this paradox and embrace the journey. For those who are determined to be the masters of their own fate, they can change everything. They can push against the rules of the universe and strive to turn chaotic fate into order. They will look out at the heavens and shout I am in control, and the earth will shake underfoot. ↗

— Logan Kain

#cool-shit #destiny #fate #change

Before the house you live in was built, there was an empty space, before the tree could provide shade to you, the tree was just a seed, before you were born, part of you existed within two separate people, and when you die, the house, the tree and your body will cease to exist as your mind perceives them today. Be free from the illusion of ownership over, this and that; Wake up, and embrace a reality of constant change, go with the flow, and enjoy the ride, be free today! ↗

— Martin Suarez

#change #clinging #contentment #control #change

You can't make me do nothing but die! ↗

— Richard Wright

#death #freedom #death