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  1. Gretchen Rubin _ The Happiness Project: Or Why

    This is one of the many paradoxes of happiness: we seek to control our lives, but the unfamiliar and the unexpected are important sources of happiness.
    book-quotehappinesscontrol

  2. Beth Revis _ Across the Universe

    I realize the simple truth is that power isn't control at all- power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others so that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
    book-quotelovepowercontrol

  3. bell hooks _ All About Love: New Visions

    In the Mars-and-Venus-gendered universe, men want power and women want emotional attachment and connection. On this planet nobody really has the opportunity to know love since it is power and not love that is the order of the day. The privilege of power is at the heart of patriarchal thinking. Girls and boys, men and women who have been taught this way almost always believe love is not important, or if it is, it is never as important as being powerful, dominant, in control, on top-being right. Women who give seemingly selfless adoration and care to the men in their lives appear to be obsessed with 'love,' but in actuality their actions are often a covert way to hold power. Like their male counterparts, they enter relationships speaking the words of love even as their actions indicate that maintaining power and control is their primary agenda.
    book-quotelovefeminismpower

  4. John Fowles _ The Collector

    I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.
    book-quotecontrolkidnap

  5. Kathy Acker _ In Memoriam to Identity

    It's possible to name everything and to destroy the world.
    book-quotelifecontroldestruction

  6. Donna Tartt _ The Secret History

    That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the world. Its infinite possibility.
    book-quotepowercontrolpossibility

  7. Michael Pollan _ Cooked: A Natural History of

    The dream of control is seductive but it leads to monoculture in the field and fortified white bread in the supermarket.
    book-quotecontrolfoodmonoculture

  8. Libba Bray _ The Sweet Far Thing

    You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after you. It is my duty.""If you wish to suffer, you do so of your own free will, not on my behalf. Or Father's or Grandmama's or anyone's. You are a fine physician, Thomas. Why is that not enough?""Because it isn't," he says with a rare candor. "Only this and the hope of nothing more? A quiet respectability with no true greatness or heroism in it, with only my reputation to recommend me. So you see, Gemma, you are not the only one who cannot rule her own life.
    book-quoteloveliferesponsibility

  9. Jack Weatherford _ Genghis Khan and the Making of

    The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.
    book-quotecontrolleadershippride

  10. Marisha Pessl _ Special Topics in Calamity

    ,' Dad said, 'has the sort of ellipsis ending most American audiences would rather undergo a root canal than be left with, not only because they loathe anything left to the imagination-we're talking about the country that invented spandex-but also because they are a confident, self-assured nation. They Family. They Right from Wrong. They know God-many of them attest to daily chats with the man. And the idea that none of us can truly know anything at all-not the lives of our friends or family, not even ourselves-is a thought they'd rather be shot in the arm with their own semi-automatic rifle than face head-on. Personally, I think there's something terrific about not knowing, relinquishing man's feeble attempt to control. When you throw up your hands, say, "Who knows?" you can get on with the sheer gift of being alive."
    book-quotefamilygodcontrol

  11. Jeanne DuPrau _ The City of Ember

    The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself. Anger is.
    book-quotecontrol

  12. Patrick Süskind _ Perfume: The Story of a

    He would be able to create a scent that was not merely human, but super human, an angels scent, so indescribably good and vital that who ever smelt it would be enchanted and with his whole heart would have to love him.
    book-quotelovepowercontrol
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