Control The Uncontrollable Quotes

#1. One of the reasons for not being contented is our inability to accept things as they are, together with ourselves, other people, events and every little detail of our days.
And we try to change the unchangeable and control the uncontrollable.

Lidiya K.

#2. And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable ... you ironically increase ... the probability of getting what you want.

Michael Neill

#3. Equanimity's strength derives from a combination of understanding and trust. It is based on understanding that the conflict and frustration we feel when we can't control the world doesn't come from our inability to do so but rather from the fact that we are trying to control the uncontrollable.

Sharon Salzberg

#4. You can always control the controllable, and you can never control the uncontrollable.

Ben Tolosa

#5. When you have succeeded in letting go of a trivial preoccupation or two, your awareness will begin to expand into the deeper sources of stress in your life, the bigger uncontrollable things that you have been at pains to control.

Linda Bender

#6. I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.

Richard Avedon

#7. Her kiss could kill us, and my consent signed our death certificates, selfishly and without control. (Eric)

Shannon A. Thompson

#8. I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.

Eric Bana

#9. It was unnerving. She'd looked at him and had the uncontrollable urge to weep. Thus far she'd managed to control her emotions. Thank God. She didn't even want to imagine what he would think of her if she started weeping for absolutely no reason.

Debbie Macomber

#10. The characters in my novels, from the very first one, are always on some quixotic effort of attempting to control something that is uncontrollable - some element of the world that is essentially random and out of control.

John Irving

#11. We all try. And try as we might to control things, sometimes bad things get in and it's not our fault.

Richard Castle

#12. Feelings are not controllable," I retorted, "They are not thoughts or words. They are invisible emotions you cannot control no matter how bad you try.

Ariana Godoy

#13. But no one could control Mark Littleberry; the man was fundamentally uncontrollable.

Richard Preston

#14. I gradually fell from grace; alas, you dove in headfirst!

Ahmed Mostafa

#15. Runners aren't impervious to pain, we're just better at choosing what kind of pain we have to feel.

And when I run, that's exactly what I'm doing.

I'm asserting control over the uncontrollable.

I'm housebreaking a tornado.

The Oatmeal

#16. Love. It seemed impossible that she could love him, but she was so deep in him there was really nowhere to go but further in. So this is what love was. Uncontrollable. Consuming. But so irresistible you wanted to be consumed.

Dianna Hardy

#17. Still, I shouldered part of the blame, maybe because it gave me some sense of control in an uncontrollable situation.

Kelley Armstrong

#18. The creator created women to control those wild, uncontrollable, intriguing men.

Debasish Mridha

#19. I have never told anyone about this part of my life. Keeping it secret gave me a sense of control over the uncontrollable; unveiling the lies leaves me painfully exposed.

Maggi Myers

#20. Suddenly I had to laugh. It was like realising you definitely need to projectile vomit when you thought you had it under control in some imprisoning form of public space.

Olivia Sudjic

#21. Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.

John Lennon

#22. There are many things in this life one can plan for, anticipate, control, manipulate, but love is not one of them.

Kelseyleigh Reber

#23. By nature men are uncontrollable and wild, and it should be, but women have the key to control them, if they know how to use it.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Why did hatred so often make men think of rape? And there was the flaw in her monster power. As often as the power of her beauty made one man easy to control, it made another man uncontrollable and mad.

Kristin Cashore

#25. No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.

Michael Jackson

#26. Rape is not a sexual act; it is not the result of a sudden, uncontrollable attraction to a woman in a skimpy dress. It is an act of power and violence. To suggest otherwise is deeply insulting to the vast majority of men, who are perfectly able to control their sexual desires. The

Laura Bates

#27. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.

Epictetus

#28. People who perceive the negative experiences in their lives as the result of uncontrollable forces are at a higher risk for depression than those who believe they have control

Sheena Iyengar

#29. Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with.

Maurice Greene

#30. Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Al Alvarez