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«Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.»
«He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still»
«Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.»
Author: Mike Tyson (Boxer) | About: Fear | Keywords: alert, best friend, control it, cook, deer, lawn
«Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.»
«One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.»
«O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind.»
«Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.»
«In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.»
«America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.»
«A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.»
Author: John Steinbeck (Novelist, Writer) | About: Journey, Marriage | Keywords: control it

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