Veronica Roth Quotes

I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

I'm a really extreme person, and balance is probably the hardest thing for me to maintain.

A lot of people do impulsive things. They just go with their moves. I used to do that. Once I was able to control my mind, I was able to control my actions.

Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

If you did everything your mind told you to do, you do some really strange stuff. You'll probably be in jail, you'll be in trouble. But, it's all about control. We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

I try to be really hippie about things. I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family can benefit from my uptightness, I'm completely lacking.

I can be pretty reactive, and I've learned over time to be less reactive: to stop and think before I make decisions.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

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

We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

I have a mean streak and I am capable of cruelty. This does not mean that I am necessarily mean and cruel; instead, it means that I have to be vigilant about my capacity for cruelty and the mean bone in my body.

I'm probably more persuasive than the next person if I want to be, but do I want to be? In my head, I just don't go there.

I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.

You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time

Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.

I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my sensations to order; and it was wonderful how I got over the temporary blunder-how I cleared up the mistake of supposing Mr. Rochester's movements a matter in which I had any cause to take vital interest.

Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.