Quotes About Restraint

You can't just do what you want, she thought. Why should Mia get to, when no one else did?

I wanted to kill her with my bare hands but it wouldn't have been Christian.

Rules, boundaries, and limitations

1. Not practicing the four dharmas of a practitioner (not returning curses for curses, anger for anger, blow for blow, or insult for insult)

It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

It is easy to stand a pain, but difficult to stand an itch.

Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Horses and poets should be fed, not overfed.

You'll never understand the true sense of freedom – until you lose it.

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too well

Body can't contain the inside hurricane. (Corps ne peut contenir L'ouragan intérieur)

The drunkard who is colorblind still sees where is the wine. (L'ivrogne qui est daltonien - Voit quand même où est le vin.)

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me.

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.