self-control

When you let go of control and commit yourself to happiness, it is so easy to offer compassion and forgiveness. This propels you from the past, into the present. People that are negative, spend so much time trying to control situations and blame others for their problems. Committing yourself to staying positive is a daily mantra that states, __ have control over how I plan to react, feel, think and believe in the present. No one guides the tone of my life, except me!

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness__nd there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

Only with calmness can you control your emotions.

Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.

I am very happyBecause I have conquered myselfAnd not the world.I am very happyBecause I have loved the worldAnd not myself.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

Mr. Pembroke, watching his broad back, desired to bury a knife in it. The desire passed, partly because it was unclerical, partly because he had no knife, and partly because he soon blurred over what had happened. To him all criticism was "rudeness": he never heeded it, for he never needed it: he was never wrong.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you__e fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.

It is good to have a reason for every action you perform other than blaming others for your faults.

Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life.

Projecting an air of self-assurance will take you a long way.

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.

I wear makeup and I don dramatic attire because I like control. I__ not interested in controlling others but I__ invested in strict self-governance. This is why I don__ do many face-to-face interviews. I don__ like being caught off-guard. It all goes back to that attempt to create order amidst disorder. One of the most frightening things about losing your mind is that you feel like your body, your brain, every part of your essence is being invaded. There is such a palpable helplessness to that narrative and I hate the sense of victimhood that it implies. Certainly, this is how I felt during my moments of psychological disquiet. I felt like my personhood was under attack. Performativity is important to me because I__ the teller of my own stories. I have been performing these multiple roles for so long that they have bled into my identity. I have become the man that I always wanted to be.

No matter the situation don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

The discipline gave me a sense of achievement. Not least, fasting is a test of willpower and, whenever I felt my willpower weakening, I would tell myself that I could eat as much as I wanted after sunset. But then the strange thing was that after fasting all day long, I tended to feel full with just a small snack.

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

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