Quotes About Self-control

I have a box inside me now that never used to exist. I never needed it before. It's down in my deepest, darkest corner, and it's airtight, soundproofed and padlocked. It's where I keep the thoughts I don't know what to do with, that could get me into trouble. Eating Unseelie hammers on the inside of that lid incessantly. I try to keep kissing Barrons in that box, too, but it gets out sometimes.

That's why I'm still a virgin, because it means something to me and I'm not going to toss my virginity at your charming feet just because you're the most gorgeous, fascinating man I've ever met and I happen to like your last name.

Bottom line is most of the world will push you as far as you let them.

Then why? Why would you do something that you know is going to end up bad? Why would anyone ever do something they know is going to hurt them?

I just go with it, focus on whichever feeling I have most often and try to keep my mouth shut when it's the other. But most folks got Id and Ego living on different floors in their head's house, in different rooms, and they've locked all the doors between them, and nailed sheets of plywood over that, because they think they're, like, sworn enemies that can't hang together.

I should be more frugal, but my weaknesses are books

I thought you were watching your weight," Gardner said from the doorway. This was directed at Wynne, who swallowed the last bite of doughnut with a guilty air as he looked at her. "I am. I'm watching it creep toward three hundred.

When in a negatively charged state, be careful about the decisions you make.

Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

Es gehört viel Demut und Selbstüberwindung dazu, die Größe seines Geistes so zu verhüllen, daß kein Unschuldiger durch sie niedergeschmettert wird.

You're beginning to make a habit of trying to drown yourself, Grace. I hope from now on you will try to restrain yourself.

Celibate? He lived and breathed sex. Considered sex the eighth wonder of the world. Suffering blue balls was for teenagers. Not grown men.

You must use your mind and not let it use you.

I'm pretty good at walking away from things—probably too good, in fact.

Can I tell you what I want? I want to stop wanting things I can't have. I want to stop falling for jerks I don't need. And I want to stop feeling like an f/ing gooey butter cake somebody left out in the rain.

Probably one should never feel such gaiety or such despair. Better to operate on an even keep like Friedan and Gloria and the others.

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

I've done every diet there is.

And lock your hands to the table so they don't flail around or touch your hair.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Until you stop being governed by your emotions you cannot be impartial.

Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.

The key to happiness in life is knowing when to keep your mouth shut.