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Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling that desire.
Epictetus
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it but that it is a moral imperative that we have it. Then is when we join the fashionable madmen and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land and then is when we are in bad trouble.
Joan Didion
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies the hardest victory is the victory over self.
Aristotle
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well-being of others.
Sharon Anthony Bower
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
Napoléon Bonaparte
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
Samuel Johnson
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions desires and fears is more than a king.
John Milton
To pursue yourself is an interesting and absorbing thing to do. Once you have caught the scent of a hidden being your own hidden being you won't readily be deflected from the tracking down of it.
Cynthia Propper Seton
Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves their abilities their frailties and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.
Sydney J. Harris
If I could know me I could know the universe.
Shirley Maclaine
A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.
Chuang-tzu
I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we are secure in our own soul.
Margaret Chase Smith
Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.
Geraldine Ferraro
The fool shouts loudly thinking to impress the world.
Marie de France
Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
It was enough just to sit there without words.
Louise Erdrich
Talking too much too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.
Meg Greenfield
A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
Susan Griffin
Talk uses up ideas. ... Once I have spoken them aloud they are lost to me dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them like bulbs in the rich soil of silence do they grow.
Doris Grumbach
Next to entertaining or impressive talk a thoroughgoing silence manages to intrigue most people.
Florence Hurst Harriman
Love understands love it needs no talk.
Frances Ridley Havergal
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
Lillian Hellman
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
Julia Ward Howe
Handle them carefully for words have more power than atom bombs.
Pearl Strachan Hurd
One sees intelligence far more than one hears it. People do not always say transcendental things but if they are capable of saying them it is always visible.
Marie Leneru
The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
Charlotte Lennox
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Hannah Moore
Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
Myrtle Reed
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles.
Muriel Spark
All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand- any dog child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.
Freya Stark
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
Gertrude Stein
Minimum information given with maximum politeness.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
Lily Tomlin
This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.
Phyllis McGinley
Don't give advice unless you're asked.
Amy Alcott
We don't want to push our ideas on to customers we simply want to make what they want.
Laura Ashley
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
Marianne Moore
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls.
Taylor Caldwell
Not being able to govern events I govern myself.
Michel de Montaigne
As far as your self-control goes as far goes your freedom.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
That is always our problem not how to get control of people but how all together we can get control of a situation.
Mary Parker Follett
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
Margaret Mead
He that would govern others should first be the master of himself.
Philip Massinger
You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion however unpopular are allowed to put across their points of view.
Betty Boothroyd
There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference for the subtle differences that challenge and delight there is space for disappointment- and surprise.
Christine Downing
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller
In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained no man can be truly free. He may have power but he will not have freedom.
Mary F. Robinson
Ambition old as mankind the immemorial weakness of the strong.
Vita Sackville-West
When one clings to the myth of superiority one must constantly overlook the virtues and abilities of others.
Anne Wilson Schaef
The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
George Eliot
The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.
Millicent Fenwick
Never eat more than you can lift.
Miss Piggy
A woman that's too soft and sweet is like tapioca pudding-fine for them as likes it.
Osa Johnson
A little of what you fancy does you good.
Marie Lloyd
Gammy used to say "Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things."
Betty MacDonald
Who is apt on occasion to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.
Harriet Martineau
The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
L.M. Montgomery
Superior people never make long visits.
Marianne Moore
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