Control - Quotes
I chose to love my friends. I chose to love my wife. I think I even chose to love my parents as I got older. But I had no say in loving my children. The love for my children is beyond my control. It`s animal. It`s like hunger. It`s more than hunger - there have been times I could control my hunger [...]. I love my children like I need to breathe.
People are told that they are inherently bad or sinful and that the only way to become good is by giving over control of their lives to faith. As there is no evidence that any of that is true, religion, in effect, is creating an imaginary problem simply so that it can sell an imaginary solution.
You are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can`t worry about.
Free will is an illusion. Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have.
To give people control, you have to make clearly evident what the options are, because options largely exist only to the degree that they're perceived.
When you focus on what you fear - you get more of what you fear. When you focus on what you don`t want - you get more of what you don`t want. When you focus on attempting to control others - you attract more of being controlled.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.
Vagabonding is about taking control of your circumstances instead of passively waiting for them to decide your fate.
At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what`s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That`s the world`s greatest lie.
It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.
I`m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I`m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can`t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don`t deserve me at my best.