Quotes About Restraint

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

We're living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom.

I can't control myself, that's my problem.

one must learn that which is necessary, and not simply what one wants

She had never allowed herself to be provoked; she had learned early that whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant.

Everything seemed wrapped in an aura of oppressive silence; it seemed that no one wanted to share their inner world with strangers.

They were prisoners, trapped by old ways of life, jailed within the imperial palace. He was no more free than she was. Yet only she could do what she would. If she said she would be Empress, then none could hold her back.

Y el niño tiene que conformarse con mirar de lejos esos colores verde menta, morado mora, rosa frutilla o amarillo bocado que ofrecen las heladerías. Muy adentro, en su enano corazón, él ya sabe que pertenece a esa muchedumbre conformista que mira las vitrinas tocándose las monedas para el Metro.

Resolved," wrote a girl in 1892, "to think before speaking. To work seriously. To be self-restrained in conversations and actions. Not to let my thoughts wander. To be dignified. Interest myself more in others." And one hundred years later: "I will try to make myself better in any way I possibly can. . . . I will lose weight, get new lenses, already got new haircut, good makeup, new clothes and accessories.

When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don't magically disappear. Over the years, I've come to call resting with the discomfort "the detox period," because when you don't act on your habitual reactions, it's like giving up an addiction. You're left with the feelings you were trying to escape. The practice is to make a wholehearted relationship with that.

But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.

Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality.

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

Always shun whatever may make you angry.

Let anger's fire be slow to burn.

Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy.

It's my rule never to lose my temper until it would be detrimental to keep it.

When angry count four when very angry swear.

On of the prerequisites for my mobile phone is that I have to be able to fling it at a wall if I lose my temper.

If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.