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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. -- Virginia Woolf
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. -- Howard Zinn
We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves. -- Peggy Noonan
...freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others... -- John Geddes
I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves. -- Peggy Noonan
To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose. -- Virginia Woolf
Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by acceptance. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our lives. -- Rebecca Pippert
People love information. Right now in our society, we have an obesity epidemic. Because for the first time in history, we have access to food whenever we want, we don't know how to control ourselves. I think we have the exact same problem with information. -- Marco Arment
Getting to know ourselves and learning to control ourselves are the two great tasks of life. Don't make up strange and exotic 'penances.' Simply say no to yourself once a day, and you will be on the road to sanctity for the rest of your life. -- Joan D. Chittister
We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves. -- Denis Villeneuve
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated. -- Susie Orbach
To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves. -- Peter McWilliams
I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice. -- Victoria Woodhull
We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be. -- Orison Swett Marden
I think we sometimes give ourselves a little too much credit as humans, as being able to control and understand nature, when in fact we do neither. -- Richard Preston
So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
On social networking sites, we may expose ourselves, but we choose to do so. We are in control and, often wrongly, we do not feel we are giving away tradable data. -- Julian Baggini
I am always being stopped for style advice, and I love it! The way we dress says so much about ourselves, and I love when I can help others take control of that. -- Nina Garcia
I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts. -- Christina Baker Kline
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. -- Isaac Asimov
Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let our circumstances or what others do or don't do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless. -- Joyce Meyer
We think we control our environment, but in fact, it's our environment that controls us. We can't change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring. -- Guy Spier
Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That's what surfers do - take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we've become incredibly adept technically. We've treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part. -- Brian Eno
It's difficult to admit to ourselves that we suffer. We feel humiliated, like we should have been able to control our pain. If someone else is suffering, we like to tuck them away, out of sight. It's a cruel, cruel conditioning. There is no controlling the unfolding of life. -- Sharon Salzberg
Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what's needed to unlock the magic. Go ahead, have faith. -- Kris Carr
I saw the Internet as being something which would allow power mongers to control us, and that we would willingly go to that if it promised us salvation - if it promised to show us who we were and let us find ourselves as we had, uniquely in our generation, through rock music. -- Pete Townshend
Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. -- Sylvia Boorstein
The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves. -- Vladimir Lenin
Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform. -- Pete Cashmore
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives. -- Brian Tracy
Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts. -- Tara Brach
Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves -- George Soros
We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life. -- Jessica Zafra
Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking. -- Claude M. Bristol
We should set our goals; then learn to control our appetites. Otherwise, we will lose ourselves in the confusion of the world. -- Hark Herald Sarmiento
We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves. -- Watchman Nee
Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world? -- Euripides
Sometimes the world is just out of our control and we like to blames ourselves so that we can make sense out of it. -- Joel Surnow
When we're each aware of our own Magnificence, we don't feel the need to control others, and we won't allow ourselves to be controlled. -- Anita Moorjani
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Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind. Emotional harm does not come from others; it is conceived and developed within ourselves. -- Carlos Slim
So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves. -- Marilyn Ferguson
We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives. -- Carl Jung
Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control. -- Joseph Sobran

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