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What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

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When you give yourself to me, completely, I will bite you. Until then, my love, I will only nibble on you.”~Cole

~ Tina Carreiro

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The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of 'whoop-ass', justifiably, when ones button is pushed.

~ T.f. Hodge

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Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

~ Amit Kalantri

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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

~ Voltaire

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Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The world needs someone they can admire from a distance, from a very far distance.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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Dreams are ideas where the collar has been removed and the leash has been thrown away.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse.

~ Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin Freedom Restraint Women

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. (Address to Congress on Resigning Commission Dec 23, 1783)

~ George Washington

George Washington Freedom Humility Patriotism Restraint

When you take the high road you will see things that some people can't.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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Of course I contradict myself. Why else would hold things in and put the fire out?

~ Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso

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Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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Saying of the ProphetAngerYou ask for a piece of advice. I tell you: 'Do not get angry.' He is strong who can withhold anger.

~ Idries Shah

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Focus.Such a little word for such a hard thing and yet it can make things so simple, unless you break it. Like glass.Fragile on certain points with enough pressure ore carelessness, but if handled correctly, it’s useful, clear, sharp, and perfect.That’s what I will try to think about, whenever the Beast in me is not in agreement with what I am doing, or how I am behaving, when it threatens to break free, through that very same glass that separates us.I need to be exactly like this window: smooth, cool, strong, and impenetrable.Focus.

~ D.s. Wrights

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Great men have great discipline.

~ Habeeb Akande

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Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

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The ideas are louder when there are fewer of them.

~ David C. Day

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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

~ Orson Scott Card

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Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.

~ Thiruvalluvar

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Beating yourself up over every perceived mistake is the work of an internal abuser who must be restrained and reformed.

~ Bryant Mcgill

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Sometimes the greatest difference between being a boy and being a man is restraint.

~ Dave Donovan

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The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called spannungsbogen -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

~ Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert Desire Restraint

Johnathan had known he wouldn't be able to simply shut off his thoughts and go to sleep. His entire body - everything he could feel, at least - was like a tightly coiled spring.

~ Lyn Ducoty

Lyn Ducoty Desire Restraint Tension

Johnathan had known he wouldn't be able to simply shut off his thoughts and go to sleep. His entire body - everything he could feel, at leas- was like a tightly coiled spring.

~ Lyn Ducoty

Lyn Ducoty Desire Restraint Tension

Johnathan had known he wouldn't be able to simply shut off his thoughts and go to sleep. His entire body - everything he could feel, at leastleast like a tightly coiled spring.

~ Lyn Ducoty

Lyn Ducoty Desire Restraint Tension

There are so many ways of classifying our tendencies, but I think one of the most telling must be this: there are those of us who do not wrestle very often or for very long with our appetites, who can simply say, Enough, and walk away, and those of us who are constantly at odds with how much we desire and what we actually allow ourselves. The gay between desire and restraint: here rages the river of discontent, one that often threatens to overflow its banks.

~ Christine Sneed

Christine Sneed Desire Discontent Restraint Want

The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.

~ Winston S. Churchill

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Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was when it struck without warning. But when a hradani gave himself to it knowingly, it was as cold as it was hot, as rational as it was lethal. To embrace the Rage was to embrace a splendor, a glory, a denial of all restraint but not of reason. It was pure, elemental purpose, unencumbered by compassion or horror or pity, yet it was far more than mere frenzy.

~ David Weber

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Nobody loves a policeman until he needs one.

~ Will Durant

Will Durant Culture Law Restraint

We are what we are, Nial, neither as good or as evil as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.

~ Melissa Marr

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Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted to tell her that, but this was the thing with coaching: you had to step back at exactly the moment you ached to step forward.

~ Chris Cleave

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But we don't have to react. That's what I'm saying. A police force, like a government, should be above that. Just because we're provoked doesn't mean we have to act. -- Still Life

~ Louise Penny

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The practice of that which is ethically best—what we call goodness or virtue—involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. In place of ruthless self-assertion it demands self-restraint; in place of thrusting aside, or treading down, all competitors, it requires that the individual shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows... It repudiates the gladiatorial theory of existence... Laws and moral precepts are directed to the end of curbing the cosmic process.

~ Thomas Henry Huxley

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Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?

~ Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller Passion Restraint Youth

Ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything. 1) Does this need to be said 2) “Does this need to be said by me? 3) Does this need to be said by me now?

~ Craig Ferguson

Craig Ferguson Communication Restraint

I am more and more convinced that some people are put in our lives solely to try our patience and tamper with our tolerance levels.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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It is the restraint of patience that yields the magnificent in life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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The British boy suffers the greatest restraint during the period when the call of nature, the instincts of play and adventure, are most urgent. Naturally, he looks eagerly forward to the time of escape, which he fondly imagines will be when his boyhood is over and he is free of masters.

~ William Henry Hudson

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The church is often called a killjoy for protesting against sexual license. But the real killing of joy comes with the grabbing of pleasure. As with credit card usage. the price tag is hidden at the start, but the physical and emotional debt incurred will take a long time to pay off.

~ N.t. Wright

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