“Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do”

“Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.”

“Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.”

“Never do what people say, always do what your mind tells you.”

“Do not kill your ego and do not let your ego to kill you. Control your ego and rule over it.”

“Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily”

“(…) A weak mind cannot control its own projections. Be aware, therefore, of your mind and its projections. You cannot control what you do not know. On the other hand, knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself – know yourself.”

“If you could stop thinking, letting go of trying control your world w/your mind, where would your attention go?”

“I can't tell them what to do!"
"Why not?" the other girl demanded. "Honestly, Clary, if you don't start utilizing a bit of your natural feminine superiority, I just don't know what I'll do with you.”

“I do not trust my eyes to tell me what a man is: I have a better and more trustworthy light by which I can distinguish what is true from what is false: let the mind find out what is good for the mind.”
Oculis de homine non credo, habeo melius et certius lumen quo a falsis uera diiudicem: animi bonum animus inueniat.