control

Damage control is part of life. It would be better to never make a mistake, but once it's made it's best to handle it with grace and humility. Sometimes that shows others more than our failures ever could.

You want to be competent? she thought. You want to learn to be in control of what goes on around you, rather than just being pushed around? Then you__l have to learn to deal with failure.

You have 100% control over yourself, and your life. It is up to you to stop giving your power away, and to decide what you want to be, do, or have...and go after it.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

The knowledge that God is in control should give you confidence for the future.

At this point in my life, beaming confidence is largely a matter of mind over bladder control

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?

When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression.

Science itself, no matter whether it is the search for truth or merely the need to gain control over the external world, to alleviate suffering, or to prolong life, is ultimately a matter of feeling, or rather, of desire-the desire to know or the desire to realize.

Don't be a zombie for anyone, if your oppressor likes zombies, cinemas are not located in mars.

They say you can__ change the past despite the fact it never stops changing you _ but that doesn't mean we have to sit back and take it. It may change us, but we have ultimate control over how we let it.

How do you get rid of unhappiness? You must release yourself from the prison you have unknowingly placed yourself in. Come to terms with the fact that there are things that you cannot control. But, just because you don__ __ontrol_ something, doesn__ mean it__ going to fall to pieces. That may be the hardest part. We get bent out of shape when something happens that is out of our control, because we don__ understand why it__ happening or where it__ coming from. It__ unsettling. You put your fighting arms up and prepare to battle the world. But, stop for a moment. Think. Where are all of these things coming from?The world is not a wild, untamed place, where things are a free for all. Understand that there is a higher power running the world.

My sister said Mary Elizabeth is suffering from low self-esteem, but I told her that she said the same thing about Sam back in November when she started dating Craig, and Sam is completely different. Everything can't be low self-esteem, can it? My sister tried to clarify things. She said that by introducing me to all these great things, Mary Elizabeth gained a "superior position" that she wouldn't need if she was confident about herself. She also said that people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want.

A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.

We don't like to admit it, but the idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything. All truly civilized people _ the ancients no less than us _ have civilized themselves through the wilful repression of the old, animal self.

I__ a bit-part actor in my own life

Why, isabel? Why are you doing this to yourself? To your

If you have control over yourself, you have no desire to control others.