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- The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
- William James (1842 - 1910), The Principles of Psychology
- When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.
- Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
- Be eager to fulfill the smallest duty and flee from transgression for one duty includes another and one transgression induces another transgression.
- The Talmud, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
- While we don't have much say over the desires that we have, we certainly can decide which we prefer-and then search for ways to act on that basis.
- Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
- A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.
- Judith Brocklehurst, Darcy And Anne
- A young lady who faints may awake chivalrous sentiments in gentleman; a young lady who weeps engenders only a strong desire to be elsewhere.
- Judith Brocklehurst, Darcy And Anne
- No letter from a lover is ever more welcome, brings more joy, than a publisher's expression of interest does to a new author!
- Judith Brocklehurst, Darcy And Anne
- Worrying about gray hair when your weight's soaring out of control is like mowing your lawn while your house is on fire.
- Edward Ugel, I'm With Fatty: Losing Fifty Pounds in Fifty Miserable Weeks, 2010
- Control's a funny thing. It comes and goes. Some days I had it, some days I didn't. It felt like every time I did something healthy, I had this in satiable need to counterbalance it by doing something unhealthy.
- Edward Ugel, I'm With Fatty: Losing Fifty Pounds in Fifty Miserable Weeks, 2010
- My ability to tolerate shame, to compartmentalize it, to swallow it, increased right along with my belt size. it came with the territory of being heavy. Obese people have a lifetime of experience with shame.
- Edward Ugel, I'm With Fatty: Losing Fifty Pounds in Fifty Miserable Weeks, 2010
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