Celia Green Quotes

You can't make people who you want them to be. That was a hard lesson for me.

The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.

While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

I spent a long part of my childhood repressing my more animalistic desire systems, and in a way, it permits me to do some of the stuff that I would want to be doing in a way that's more comfortable and doesn't break my internal rules. It expands the realm of possibility.

Sometimes we have an objective reality that tells you you shouldn’t do what you want to do.

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

for the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.

If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.

Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

For the first time, the object of what I want is more important than fulfilling my desires.

I want to start replacing my “fix” response with an “enjoy” response and just let people be themselves.

Scheme not to make what's Another's your own; Be not a Dog for the sake of a Bone.

It is better to control oneself, if one can, and not hit back. But on certain occasions, it is imperative to defend oneself. I don't think it's fair to ask anybody not to defend herself or himself.

If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want

We are as happy as people can be, without making themselves ridiculous, and might be even happier; but, as a matter of taste, we choose to stop short at this point.

I should just stop trying to control what's coming out of my mouth. I'm always going to keep what's important to me in mind and I completely understand considering that we're playing characters that are so coveted by so many people so I get why they want to know more about us. I just sort of have to not think about it.

Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody's throat. For those who don't want it, I have nothing to defend.