Holding on stands in the way of what's meant for you.
Only with calmness can you control your emotions.
You have the ability to drive your brain and the capability to nab the steering wheel back any time you feel yourself veering off the road you intended to take.
Just because some children were more effective than others at distracting themselves from [the marshmallow in the famous Marshmallow Test] doesn't mean this capacity was for the impressive results fo...
How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.
Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up.
What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also...
It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.
When we are impatient, we are neither reverential nor reflective because we are too self-centered. Whereas faith and patience are companions, so are selfishness and impatience. It is so easy to be con...
The battle for self-control over an intense undesired habit consists of an endless series of skirmishes, in which our urges and our better angels clash several times each day.
Refrain to-night;And that shall lend a kind of easinessTo the next abstinence, the next more easy;For use almost can change the stamp of nature,And either master the devil or throw him outWith wondrou...
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
The breath I take, the thoughts I think, the emotions I develop, the blood I circulate, the neurons that are wired, everything is completely controlled and has a deep meaning behind it. My soul is enl...
Her philosophy was, if it had a pulse, it could be killed. I didn’t really have a philosophy, but I could see how talking with the school director would be difficult for her. If he said something she...
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made...
There never has been and cannot be a good life without self-control. Apart from self-control no good life is imaginable.
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