You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?

Richard Russo
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  1. It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength. - Patrick Ness

  2. No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way. - Chuck Palahniuk

  3. The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control. - Bell Hooks

  4. Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. - Ralph Ellison

  5. You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway. - Steve Maraboli

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  3. Maybe sheetrocking wasn't one of Sully's favorite jobs, but like most physical labor, there was a rhythm to it that you could find if you cared to look, and once you found this rhythm it'd get you through a morning. Rhythm was what Sully had...

  4. What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

  5. ...he had to comfort himself with the firm conviction that most of what he objected to in Mohawk and the world at large was not the result of people reading the wrong books, but rather of not reading any at all.

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