The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.[Τὴν ὑποληπτικὴν δύναμιν σέβε.]
Sloppy crying had never helped anyone yet.
Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.[ὅσῳ χαλεπώτερα ἐπιφέρουσιν αἱ ὀργαὶ καὶ λῦπαι αἱἐπὶ τοῖς τοιούτοις, ἤπερ αὐτά ἐστιν ἐφ οἷς ὀργιζόμεθα καὶλυπούμεθα.]
One should not lose one’s temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Mind control is the result of self-discipline and habit. You either control your mind or it controls you. There is no hall-way compromise.
Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life without losing control?
It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violence for the reason that when their control does snap, it does so entirely!
It is not life that’s complicated, it’s the struggle to guide and control life.