Quotes About Self-control

The next day we left for Rome. I had decided to make my books last and read only one book a week, but instead I gorged myself on them.

I talked far more than I should have. I knew it even at the time. I just couldn't stop myself. I didn't actually interrupt anyone, which would be unforgivable, I just didn't hold back enough to give other people a turn.

There's a well-known Hollywood personality who claims that she loses weight by being hypnotized into hating the food that's bad for her. I did that to myself while I was still in my teens and saved some very big hypnotist's fees.

I never touch sweets. I'd much rather have a dill pickle - if I ever ate ice cream I'm sure I'd surround it with pickles. […] I never touch potatoes because I learned a long time ago not to like what made me fat. I honestly believe that I don't like potatoes...

Food! I say 'No, thank you' to many lovely things every day. Recently I admired the slim figure of a magazine editor. 'That's your formula?' I asked her. 'I starve,' she sighed. 'I'm the hungriest woman in New York.

I thought carefully about the events of the evening and decided that there must be limitations on desires. It wasn't true that I could have anything I wanted. I felt good about understanding that, but I still didn't know how people figured out what it was safe to want. I did know, from my mother's scolding, that 'wanting' was a problem. If the desire could not be filled, then I was greedy and selfish. Since I couldn't figure out how to judge the possibility of fulfilling a desire. (66).

No person could fill twenty-six years of lack. And each personality had learned from experience that is was less painful to set limits than to have some external person set limits for us. (95)

When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way.

I cannot get into this swamp or I will never get out; and if I start crying again I'll remember that I have no one to love, and if anyone treats me like that again, I'll kill him. Only I mustn't because they'll punish me.

For even a little sin in our wellspring has the power to pollute and corrupt the very essence of who we are.

Here's a suggestion for future reference, then," Horse said. "Try jerking off before answering the door if you want me to believe you don't think of her that way. Wood like you were sportin' usually implies the opposite. Unless it was for me? If that's the case, I'm genuinely flattered. No judgments.

La madurez consiste en saber posponer el placer inmediato para conseguir mejorar la situación a largo plazo.

Grave Senators should never let Their angry passions rise, Their little hands were never made To scratch each other's eyes.52

She let the jealousy slip out of her fingertips.

There was nothing to be gained by losing his temper. There was never anything to be gained by that.

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.

our modern day when we can neither endure our vices, nor face the remedies needed to cure them.

Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.

Keep your hands to yourself, keep out of other people's personal space, and keep your temper under control, no matter what happens.

Her cupboards are crammed with Cappuccino mix. No one needs Cappuccino mix. It's not diginified. She watched 'Super Size Me' and went straight to McDonald's. She did the Atkins Diet, "but with potatoes.

One of the reasons Sulfur didn't date very much was that they couldn't help falling a little bit in love with anyone who gave them an orgasm. It was exhausting and practically never led anywhere good.

No one else has the right to decide if or when we cut our skin, but if we don't learn to interpret the warning signs that tell us if we really need to cut, we can become the enslavers as well as the enslaved. We can become our own enemy.