“People that are all different kinds of negative, are dealing with their own demons, which have nothing to do with you. So don t take it personally and internalize it as your own. Hopefully, they will come to terms with their troubles, but you can t control that.”
“People that are all different kinds of negative, are dealing with their own demons, which have nothing to do with you. So don t take it personally and internalize it as your own. Hopefully, they will come to terms with their troubles, but you can t control that either.”
“When constantly walking around the same endless circle, you will wind up with same outcome. Leap out of this ring and onto the right path for you. Don t allow others to control your way.”
“God is not just good when things are going well, God is better when things are going the worst”
“When I was a boy in Laxmangarh, and I used to play with my father’s body, the junction of the neck and the chest, the place where all the tendons and veins stick out in high relief, was my favorite spot. When I touched this spot, the pit of my father’s neck, I controlled him - I could make him stop breathing with the pressure of a finger.”
“That s the way of things, sometimes, my father said. Things happen inside a person that they think they have no control over, and it turns out they do, but they need to be told by someone else.”
“Crisis tells us we are never in control. We can only trust God who controls every circumstance.”
“Worry is the triumph of fear.”
“We want to control our deaths, our goodbye to the world, and if we can t control is, we can at least control how we leave it behind.”
“Control is a drug, and we are all hooked, whether or not we believe in the prosperity gospel s assurance that we can muster the future with our words and attitudes. I can barely admit to myself that I have almost no choice but to surrender, but neither can those around me. I can hear it in my sister-in-law s voice as she tells me to keep fighting. I can see it in my academic friends, who do what researchers do...Buried in all their concern is the unspoken question: Do I have any control?”
“If someone is trying to make you afraid, they are trying to control you.”
“The more you want to be right the less you are in control. If you want to be right you are not willing.”
“...verbal abuse is an issue of control, a means of holding power over another. This abuse may be overt or covert, constant, controlling, and what Bach and Deutsch (1980) call “crazymaking.”
“The matrix is all about boxes. It exists to keep us living in boxes, and thinking in boxes, and doing the same thing everyone else is doing, all day, for the rest of our lives, because boxes, and patterns, and the status quo make humans easy to control.”
“In the times of uncertainties, it is best to focus on ‘what we can control’ and just drop ‘what we can’t control’.”
“Guess that s where the tears came from, knowing that there s so much in this great big world that you don t have a single ounce of control over. Guess the sooner you learn that, the sooner you ll have one less heartbreak in your life. Oh Lord. Some evenings I don t know where the old pains end and the new ones begin. Fells like the older you get the more they run into one long, deep aching.”
“I know that it s better this way, being the one in control. The one in control calls the shots, and the one in control sets the pace. Most important of all, the one in control doesn t get hurt.”