2,640 Quotes About Control

A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the values of godliness he possesses.

...otherwise, one of you, most likely the man, would go wandering off on a trajectory of his own, taking his addictive body with him and leaving you with bad withdrawal, which you could counteract by exercise. If you didn't work it out it was because one of you had the wrong attitude. Everything that went on in your life was thought to be due to some positive or negative power emanating from inside your head.

Life in illusion is in a transient belief on insight without perspective

If you don’t monitor your life, you will regret it. If you don’t measure your life, you will regret it.

Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.

Then don’t think. Let your heart take control for once.

When one has control over themselves, they are fully equipped to help others and face all the realms of life.

When you can actually monitor your passing life and be in control and be in charge of your time and making sure that you are actually converting every passing day into something, then you will never regret it.

Of course, rationally I knew the universe wasn’t fair and was never going to be—there are no rules or standards for who wins and who loses. Life isn’t fair even when we ostensibly have some degree of control. Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.