"If you want to overcome the whole..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”

“It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.”

“He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.”

“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.”

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

“No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.”

“Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.”

“You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were in a full fledged emotional temper tantrum in your house and I knocked on your front door..... Come on! Let me tell you what, you would get control of yourself, and it would only take a few seconds.”