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.
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Patrick Ness
No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.
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Chuck Palahniuk
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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Bell Hooks
Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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Ralph Ellison
You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.
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Steve Maraboli
More Quotes By Elon Musk
It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.
I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I just try to think about the future and not be sad
You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.
I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other...
I could go and buy one of the islands in the Bahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build andcreate a new company.
