control

When you control their water, you control the people.

Just breathe," my mom would say, "Ten tiny breaths... Seize them. Feel them. Love them.

So there are many things outside of your control. Why not create positive control over the other things and add greater value to those?

Be purposeful in your actions. Be mindful to keep your behavior in alignment with your goals. Remember, you can refine, improve, and enhance yourself; all other control is illusory.

Punishment? You don__ have any right to punish me. And I can curse. I choose not to most of the time, but don__ think it doesn__ go through my head, asshole. I was trying to give you something. I was trying to give you my body.___hat__ where you fucked up, little girl. I don__ want your body. I want your soul. I want your everything. And I definitely want your orgasms. I want them all. I__l be a greedy bastard, savoring them and hoarding them all for myself. You wanted to give me your body? I can buy that on a street corner, sweetheart. You__e the one who__ being selfish now.___ow is it selfish to offer to have sex? I don__ understand what you want._ __irst off, I want you to stop hiding yourself from me. You__e the one making this tawdry by pretending it__ dirty and not worthy of the light of day.___ didn__ mean it that way._ __e__e going to do this my way. We tried yours and it didn__ work, so I__ taking control. I should have done it in the first place.

All men were tools, as she saw it. Dangerous tools, when roused, but that was why one took care in efforts of control. It all came back to leverage. It wasn__ enough to ask a man if he would kill his brother. One had to make him see the consequences if he did not. Then one could only ask, which would he choose: brother or daughter? For all that kin might mean, most would choose the daughter.

Sometimes it takes more courage to be the passenger than to be the driver.

Let every man be master of his time.

No, I wanted to say, he didn't cut off her hands because he didn't have to, he had cut them off long before, with years of keeping all authority in his own palms, all the rules and all the power and all the answers emanating from him and no one else. And if you don't understand that, if you've never been in such a family, then you can't know the way the mind shackles itself and amputates its own limbs so adeptly that you never think to miss them, never think that you had anything so obscene as choice.

You always use that word "remember",' said Milena. 'You say, "remember, team". You never tell us to think.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.

Fear sells better than sex and the iPhone 5 combined.

Sleep on it until your thoughts are rational and your tongue is capable of speaking only kindness and truth.

There lies a faith in the absence of control.

Wishing for control is like wishing for the rapture.

And then there was

The real problem is I'm greedy. I want complete, utter, unceasing bliss. But I don't want to fall into it either. If happiness were money I wouldn't want to win the lottery. I want to accomplish it, urn it as John Houseman would say. I want it to be an achievement because I want to be in control of my life. I don't want things to happen to me, I want them to happen because of me. Power I want. I want to feel the way I do when I stretch a new canvas and I want to feel that way all the time. the blank canvas fills me with the power of imminent creation. I'm its god an it always bends to my will and when I'm done I know, inside, that it's markedly better than what almost all of my similarly-engaged others can achieve. That's happiness.

Power is never measured by what you can give but by what you can actually take!