Quotes About Self-control

A man can do what he wants but not want what he wants.

Herkes istediÄŸini yapabilir, ama istediÄŸini isteyemez

El hombre puede, acaso, hacer lo que quiere; pero no puede querer lo que quiere.

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but he cannot determine what he wills.

Zor zamanlarda itidalini korumay?, güzel anlarda da a??r? sevincini dizginlemeyi hat?rla. -Horatius, Carmina

The fact still remains that "to fast" means primarily "not to eat."1

It meant abstaining from all food, solid or liquid, but not from water.

The normal fast, then, involved abstaining from all forms of food, but not from water, and must be distinguished from the other two forms, the absolute fast and the partial fast, which we must now consider.

We have a few examples in Scripture of what we have called the absolute fast, that is, abstaining from drinking as well as eating. Normally this was never for more than three days

I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth. Daniel 10:3 The emphasis here is upon restriction of diet rather than complete abstention.

Others have partially fasted by omitting a certain meal each day, thus strictly limiting the quantity of food consumed.

Vigilance is needed to ensure that the value of omitting the one meal is not offset by increasing the intake at others!

The partial fast is of great value, especially where circumstances make it impossible or inconvenient to undertake a normal fast. Certainly it requires no less self-discipline. It can be used as a steppingstone to the normal fast by those who have never fasted before. One of its great advantages is that even after being sustained for a long period, normal eating can be resumed almost at once, which is not the case with the other two kinds of fasting.

neither flushed nor pale.

A year ago, he would have eaten to the point of nausea. "But now they're, I don't know, they're too sweet.

The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.

And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.

Where there is willpower there is a Band Aid that's eventually going to fall off. You only need willpower to get what you don't want or you only want to want. By want to want, I mean, something you wish you wanted but don't really.

But feelings, no matter how strong or "ugly," are not a part of who you are. They are the radio stations your mind listens to if you don't give it something better to do.

I'm an alcoholic who doesn't (and doesn't want to) drink anymore so I exist in a state of never-ending micro-addictions that reveal themselves in the form of obsessions.

Therapy could be of tremendous benefit to "getting over" one's past if the therapy is focused on specific ways to stop submitting to the temptation to obsess. Many people with difficult histories carry these histories with them, burnishing the past with each retelling.

When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.

The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.