2,640 Quotes About Control

We may not be able to control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react.

And once again, work is providing us with a comforting sense of normalcy-living and working inside of coding's predictably segmented time/space. Simply grinding away at something makes life feel stable, even though the external particulars of life (like our pay checks, our office, and so forth) are, at best, random.

This is what we are like. Collectively, as a species, this is our emotional landscape. I met an old lady once, almost one hundred years old, and she told me, "There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?" Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief and suffering.

Cuando sucede algo emocionalmente doloroso y nos decimos que la culpa es nuestra, en realidad estamos diciendo que tenemos control sobre ello: si nosotros cambiamos, el dolor desaparecerá.

I feel like I've been sliding all day.

Aceste statistici, obsesiv prezentate prin toate canalele, nu reprezintă altceva decât un indicator al nivelului de control din țările respective!

Banul este, de fapt, simbolul nevoii de control a omului, al fricilor sale. În lipsa acestor frici, izvorâte din instinctul de supraviețuire, banii nu ar fi existat.

There is no such thing as control of a situation. If we try to do this, it turns back on us in negativity.

Life is many things, but if you don't try to control it, it will take hold of you and ruin you.