A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.
Naomi WolfStichwörter: beauty food diet feminism myth control feminist obedience fad
It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.
Jess C. ScottStichwörter: cynicism marriage lust sarcasm control cynic cynical married-life control-freaks spouses sarcastic cynical-humor sarcastic-humor lust-for-everything spouse control-issues
But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which
only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.
Stichwörter: truth love control walls dam trickle
Let them see that you trust them
Octavia E. ButlerStichwörter: relationships control
So when you’re nervous, you count?”
“Not just when I’m nervous,” I said. “It’s… all the time. I count the seconds during pauses in conversations. I count the minutes when I’m waiting on something. Sometimes, when I’m kind of panicked or anxious, I count my heartbeats. Something about counting makes me feel like… like I have the power. Like knowing how much time has passed or how many steps I’ve taken from one place to another will somehow keep me in control of the situation.
Stichwörter: control
Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is. It teaches the heart to be more accommodating, not by beating it into submission, but by making it clear that accommodation is a gratifying choice.
Sylvia BoorsteinStichwörter: peace control mindfulness meditation
he who feeds you, controls you
Thomas SankaraStichwörter: food control thomas sankara
In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy]
Jerry PournelleStichwörter: bureaucracy control pournelle-s-law
The COUNTRY is controlled by LAWS
William J. FedererStichwörter: future education media government control voters public-opinion country politicians future-generations
Tomorrow will never call to ask your opinion; you don't control it. Stop allowing today's possibilities to be robbed by tomorrow's insecurities.
Steve MaraboliStichwörter: motivational life inspirational success happiness opinion control today tomorrow possibilities insecurities
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