Quotes About Restraint

Acaso mantenía a raya mis sentimientos porque me espantaba la violencia con la que en mi fuero íntimo quería las cosas, a las personas, los elogios, los triunfos?

I concentrated on training myself to react little or not at all. I learned to reduce my emotions to the minimum.

Was für eine Verschwendung wäre es, unsere Geschichte damit zu verderben, dass wir negativen Gefühlen zu viel Raum ließen. Negative Gefühle sind unvermeidlich, es kommt aber darauf an, sie in Grenzen zu halten.‹

But at times, as if a drug had flooder her veins, Lila seemed unable to bear the order she had imposed on herself.

and compare it with mine and feel—I hoped—in the lead. Luckily I sensed that she would never do it and that I would only have stupidly exposed myself. I remained silent, as she did.

Si fermò in tempo ma non abbastanza perché non capissi: fu come quando uno fa cenno di volerti dare uno schiaffo e poi non te lo dà.

Suurin osa äideistä suhtautui kalseasti vapaana juokseviin koiriin. He siirsivät muut ahdistuksenaiheensa eläimiin.

Que desperdício seria, pensei, estragar nossa história dando espaço excessivo aos maus sentimentos: os maus sentimentos são inevitáveis, mas o essencial é represá-los.

Porque já estou farta, é sempre a mesma história: dentro daquilo que é pequeno existe algo ainda mais pequeno que quer saltar para fora, e fora daquilo que é grande existe algo ainda maor que o quer manter prisioneiro. Vou cozinhar.

Why was I worried? Because if, in everyday life, I was so embarrassed, so cautious, that I scarcely breathed, the diary produced in me a craving for truth. I thought that when one writes, it makes no sense to be contained, to censor oneself, and as a result I wrote mostly—maybe only—about what I would have preferred to be silent about, resorting among other things to a vocabulary that I would never have dared to use in speaking. This

and my ego gladly avoids leaning out the window.

A literature major whom I knew slightly was walking her lame boyfriend around on a leash.

Planning is important. Your paper has limits: don't fence more land than you can plow.

When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.

Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.

If you are dazzled by the appearance of a promised pleasure, guard yourself against being carried away by it; but let the matter wait, and allow yourself some delay. Then bring to mind both points of time: that in which you will enjoy the pleasure, and that in which you will repent and reproach yourself after you have enjoyed it; and set before you, in opposition to these, how you will rejoice and praise yourself if you abstain.

On the question of speaking, Stoics and Buddhists are at one. In Epictetus' words: 'Be mostly silent, or speak merely when necessary, and in few words. We may enter sparingly into conversation sometimes, when the occasion calls for it; but not about any of the common subjects, such as gladiators, or horse races, or athletic champions, or food, or drink – the vulgar topics of conversation; and especially not about individuals, either to blame, or praise, or make comparisons.

Bueno, es una lastima ¿no?, que no puedas hacer cosas que disfrutarías sólo porque tienes que ser rebelde.

There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.

When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.

Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.

I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.

I am chained to the earth to pay for freedom of my eyes.

You must leave your imagination behind or it will do you harm.