Quotes About Self-restraint

I don't think my opinions are stupid but other people do, so it's better to keep them to myself.

It is impossible for me to be all sugar one day and spit venom the next. I'd rather choose the golden mean (which is not so golden), keep my thoughts to myself, and try for once to be just as disdainful to them as they are to me. Oh, if only I could!

I had to grip myself by the wrist not to pitch one good idea after another at them. . . . I writhed with the effort to stay silent. . . . Since Jax's birth my ideas about what would be best for everyone usually got in the way. Life is already an obstacle course, and when you're adding your own impediments (thinking they're helping), you really crazy it up. You make it harder to even just cross the room. You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.

He would always make her feel too big and too gruff and too shocking; she would forever be trying to watch her words when she was with him. He was not the kind of person who liked her true self, for better or worse.

I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.

I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

I should of been chewing on my words some, so everybody else would have had a better chance of swallowing them.

I try not to glow too much at the praise of Gabe. I'm somewhat attached to him.

I believe in the oblique, the indirect approach and I keep my feelings to myself.

She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.

t's okay to let yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. -

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.

I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

I have a rule that I won't Google my own name.

I was never involved in any fights in high school. I'm glad I wasn't. I'm not very big, and I don't find great joy in cuts and bruises.

You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you.

me, like the feeling you get when you've just splurged on something too expensive and they're wrapping it up in soft tissue paper. You know you're going to feel bad in hours, maybe minutes, but right now you feel decadent, in control.

Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name.

1st Gent. Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves. 2d Gent. Ay, truly: but I think it is the world That brings the iron. [1]

Me naiset emme voi lähteä seikkailemaan - etsimään luoteisväylää tai Niilin lähteitä, tai itään metsästämään tiikereitä. Meidän täytyy pysyä siellä missä kasvamme, tai minne puutarhurit meidät haluavat siirtää. Meidät kasvatetaan kuin kukat: näytämme niin sieviltä kuin voimme, emmekä valita, vaikka pitkästyisimme. (Daniel Deronda s. 152-153)

I'm very low-maintenance, and that is a problem. I'm not demanding at all, and sometimes I feel that I should be throwing tantrums. But since I don't party or socialise, and am very low-key, I think that makes me very low-maintenance. Actually, I'm the most boring person at a party.

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

I can lose my temper from time to time, but I try not to lose it on the pitch because it can't help.