#control

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable. ↗

— Richard Avedon

#art #between #control #encounter #i

MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#empowerment-of-women #mother-teresa #poverty #poverty-alleviation #life

I wouldn't sing any of this if I didn't think it might help someone. Especially girls. It's so hard for girls - pressure to like this band or that band, dress like this but not like that - do whatever will make you blend into the wall. But girls are so passionate inside, waiting for an outlet - and that's what I try to encourage: be who you are, take control of your life. ↗

— Lacey Mosley

#encouragement #flyleaf #girls #hard #help

Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood. ↗

— Toba Beta

#control #happiness #joyful #life #mood

There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent. ↗

— Aleksandar Hemon

#life #loss-of-control #moments #life

I don't want to live my life like a story. Always thinkin I could've been something. Don't run along side and control me. Just film away and let me be. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#control-me #divided #don-t-try-to-control-me #i-could-have-been-something #let-me-be

Choice- Everyone has them, so take control! ↗

— Mordakhi

#control #life #life

You're scared of what you can't control ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#life #scared #life

Control yourself or be controlled. ↗

— Jennifer Eden Clark

#life #self-determination #society-s-increasing-stupidity #life

It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#love #strength #weakness #love