Quotes About Restraint

Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

There was something ironic about that. Amma comforting Chithra Aunty. Yet I understood it. Chithra Aunty was free to cry. We couldn't, for if we started we would never stop.

Temper is like Blood...... you only see it when you lose it!!!

A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

Perhaps the only remaining attitude is one of waiting. By committing oneself to waiting, one neither blocks one's path toward faith (like those who defiantly affirm the void) nor besieges this faith (like those whose yearning is so strong, it makes them lose all restraint). One waits, and one's waiting is a hesitant openness, albeit of a sort that is difficult to explain.

People six foot seven and 250 pounds should never lose their tempers," I explained with a calm voice. "It can be unhealthy for everyone involved.

No more shooting from anyone. Or I am going to get seriously cranky with everyone. Suddenly, and violently and all over the place.

I apply not my sword when my lash suffices nor my lash when my tongue suffices. And even if but one hair is binding me to my fellow men, I don't let it break. When they pull, I loosen, if they loosen I pull.

But sometimes, when confronted by something of unfathomable beauty, the bars of the cage around us begin to tremble. So I ran away to protect myself and remained a prisoner.

My body urges me to take advantage of the situation, but my brain (the one inside my head) keeps me in check.

Disciplined inaction.

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

Like most people confined to an institution, she had been divested of a past life.

Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.

Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.

I refrain from lots of things I love, like cheese and carbs. I eat plenty of greens every day, my favorite being watercress.

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But qualify the fire's extreme rage, Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.

The prisoner grows to love his chains.