Susan Elizabeth Phillips Quotes

We are never like angels till our passion dies.

Protect me from what I want.

I struggle with control.

I like working emotions that can take you beyond your life. And yet you have to resist them in order remain within your life. Otherwise, you're burned. I like that fight. It's more of a fight with yourself.

What could he mean by speaking so, as if I were always thinking that he cared for me, when I know he does not; he cannot. ... But I won't care for him. I surely am mistress enough of myself to control this wild, strange, miserable feeling

It's hard to be strong and be weak at the same time. So I spent a lot of time sitting still. Sitting still for hours, not moving a muscle. Really concentrated work, so I'm ready. I'm ready for my performance.

And I don't want to look at you every day, to see you naked,to watch you wandering around the annexe in your crazy dresses and not...not be able to do what I want with you. Oh, Clark,if you had any idea what I want to do to you right now.And I...i can't live with that knowledge. I can't. It's Not who I am. I can't be the kind of man who just...accepts.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

Men are victims of their own impulses.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

He who angers you conquers you.

The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I'm going to regret it.

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

You know what, life is full of temptations.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.