Quotes About Self-control

When one is angry, the first person to suffer is oneself. No one who is angry has a happy, peaceful mind.

anger causes so much misery both for the person on the receiving end, as well as for the person experiencing it.

She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.

He looks at the glass, almost ritualistically, then drains it, and thinks: not drinking would be so much easier if it wasn't so delicious.

Un individuo humano puede elegir no consumir savia de palma, no comer carne de chimpancés, no montar las pocilgas a la sombra de los mangos, no limpiar la tráquea de los caballos con las manos desnudas, no tener sexo sin protección con prostitutas, no compartir aguja, no toser sin taparse la boca, no subirse con síntomas a un avión o no poner a las gallinas y a los patos en el mismo corral.

Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind. ZEN SAYING

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts.

Decision fatigue depletes one's willpower.

Yet i say to you, do not rush to marriage for it is a deep and perfect thing. Test first, that you may be certain you are called to it by love, and not simply by pleasures of the flesh which will consume themselves and leave only ashes and misery

I'm a recovering abstainer

Keeping your mouth shut whilst eating shit will get you far in life but your soul will die of starvation.

He considered that a moment, rolling the sweet over his tongue. "There are times when it is entirely safe to show one's vulnerability, to roll over and reveal the soft underbelly beneath. But there are other times when pain must be borne without a murmur, when the pain is so consuming that if you give in to it, even in the slightest, you have lost everything.

If you mean to abuse me, let me finish my whiskey first.

the mind is a tyrant

So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173)

The act of silence is wisdom for ignoring a provoking situation.

It's okay to be nervous, scared, angry or sad sometimes so long as you don't let those emotions rule your entire life.

Discipline sets you free.

Discipline is an index of your lifebook, maintain it properly

I do not want to grow for the sake of growth. Never will I be blinded by greed.

Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.

When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you are angry.

Exist? o limit? a rezisten?ei în fiecare. Când e atins?, nu mai ai poft? s? te justifici.

no man is free until he s a master of himself!!