Control Is An Illusion Quotes

#1. Control is an illusion - a fact you will learn very fast if you become ill, or have things fall apart in some other way. When we understand vulnerability and suffering as an essential part of being human, our individual fate can be easier to manage.

Harriet Lerner

#2. Control is an illusion ...

Melody Beattie

#3. Control is an illusion, as is restraint. Dark to light, light to darkness.

Truth Devour

#4. Life is haphazard. We plan, and then we deal when the plans go awry. Control is an illusion; best intentions are the best we can do.

Anna Quindlen

#5. Control is an illusion. No one has it. I don't even have it. You can't wish for control; you can only learn to play your part in a world where nothing is truly certain. And you do have a part to play.

Susan Meissner

#6. Change is eminent, control is an illusion, but dreams are eternal. Believe in your dreams!

Greg Smith

#7. Control is an illusion. Expectations will not rule my days. Not anymore.

Renee Ahdieh

#8. I know that for every mother, there is always the possibility of three in your relationship with your daughter. You, your daughter the way she is, and your daughter the way you want her to be. I learned the hard way ten years ago that that kind of control is an illusion and a barrier.

Claire Fontaine

#9. It was more about understanding that you could give it your all, give yourself the best chances, but control is an illusion.

Harlan Coben

#10. Not knowing whom to fall in love with is like not knowing which film to make next. Life is pretty chaotic; it's just an illusion that one has control over one's life.

Shekhar Kapur

#11. We have an idea - a very modern idea - that dying is undignified. But I think this is because we have the illusion that we can control our bodies and our fates.

Meghan O'Rourke

#12. We live beneath many layers. Some are for our protection, and some are for our control.

Russell Eric Dobda

#13. Sharing with just your friends doesn't protect your privacy. I know the people at Facebook will disagree and argue that users can control what is shared with whom. But this is simply an illusion that makes us feel better about all the sharing we have done and are about to do.

Ben Parr

#14. If you live long enough, you learn time is an illusion created by men who fear death. The clocks and watches worshipped by those who deny the inevitable. There is power in acknowledging we are not the ones in control.

Amber Kizer

#15. People who do affirmations will have the sensation that
they are causing the environment to conform to their will.
This is an immensely enjoyable feeling because the illusion
of control is one of the best illusions you can have.

Scott Adams

#16. Most of us fail to appreciate the extent to which our behavior is under situational control, because we prefer to believe that is all is internally generated. We wander around cloaked in an illusion of vulnerability, mis-armed with an arrogance of free will and rationality.

Philip Zimbardo

#17. I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.

Christina Baker Kline

#18. Control is merely an illusion we construct to cope with the chaos that is reality.

Fred Bubbers

#19. When you release the illusion of control, you begin an effortless free-fall toward a grand reunion with your original self.

Bryant McGill

#20. It's an illusion, control," Naomi said. "You ought to understand that by now, young Claire. We are never in control of our destinies, even the strongest of us. All we can hope to do is not be too badly damaged by events.

Rachel Caine

#21. Although we have refined our behavior over many centuries, the basic perception that we are individual beings, separate from the rest of the world, remains unchanged, and so how we relate to the world remains unchanged. Because separation is an illusion, control is also an illusion.

Ilchi Lee

#22. Normality is an illusion, created by a conservative culture to control behaviour

Merlyn Gabriel Miller

#23. Control is only an illusion to calm yourself into believing things will go a certain way. give up control, let life lead and you will find a rich discovery.

Jennifer Probst

#24. Life in illusion is in a transient belief on insight without perspective

Farley Maglaya

#25. Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion.

Richard J. Foster

#26. You only control 2 things in life: where you spend your heartbeats & the attitude in which you spend them. All else is an illusion.

James Andrew Beck

#27. Perfection is an illusion. Allow yourself room to make mistakes and permission to be happy regardless of outcome.

Dawn Gluskin

#28. Debate is an attempt to cling to the illusion of control provided by a point of view designed to keep the ego in place; dialogue is an attempt to dance with the unknown at the risk of losing what we think we know.

Oli Anderson