What good is power when you're too wise to use it?
Maybe the greatest power of all is the power of restraint.
When you give yourself to me, completely, I will bite you. Until then, my love, I will only nibble on you.”~Cole
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of 'whoop-ass', justifiably, when ones button is pushed.
Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.
With the support of the knowledge of Vyavasthit (result of Scientific Circumstantial Evidence) and the awakened awareness (jagruti) of One's own Real form (Swaroop), One can observe saiyam (a state free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence) completely.
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.
The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.