#control

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#best #clever #condescension #humble #humility

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#benefits #better #better off #children #control

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes. ↗

— Tori Amos

#commercial #company #control #expensive #hand

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. ↗

— Aristotle

#class #classes #community #control #middle

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#leadership #self-control #leadership

A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests. ↗

— Criss Jami

#conscious #control #controlled #effort #envy

I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It's a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. It's a book, when I need to be somewhere else. It's control, when I feel so out of control. It's healing, when everything seems pretty messed up. And it's fun, when life is just flat-out boring. ↗

— Alysha Speer

#boring #control #escape #friend #fun

Taking on too much of other people's drama is just a poor excuse for not taking ownership and control over your own life. ↗

— José N. Harris

#drama #excuses #life #life-and-living #life

It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago. ↗

— Nic Sheff

#control #life #speeding #life

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#discipline #life #life