49 quotes found
“The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free”
“Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.”
“Living off others is a form of bondagefor if you take from a person his responsibility to care for himself, you also take from him the opportunity to be free.”
“I learned by heart the lines of your face. I can draw them blindly on a water canvas.Your face in the middle of an inflamed argument. Your face in the middle of a mild one-- when you're at fault.Yo...”
“However, if we dont confront the seed of lies, it gives place for them to take root in us and we become bound to the prison cell that those lies create.”
“The most ironic thing was that, the thing she valued the most was freedom. For according to her, happiness can never occur in bondage. In spite of the fact that death will set her free from all hum...”
“The Gospel shows people their wounds and bestows on them love. It shows them their bondage and supplies the hammerto knock away their chains. It shows them their nakedness and provides them the gar...”
“I realized that poverty was a kind of captivity.”
“Freedom is the natural state, acceptance of bonds is a choice we make. We prefer to accept loss of freedom to losing something much less valuable but which we are not willing to sacrifice.”
“All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.”
“As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.”
“What is absolute humility (param vinaya)? It is on the one who has not disrespected anyone in the slightest! Absolute humility lies where there is no dispute, no difference of opinion or any law. L...”
“Don't let the bonds of fear and doubt keep you from attempting the impossible. Each attempt will loosen the chains and you'll eventually break free, thus finding the 'impossible' was actually possi...”
“In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.In all these movements they bring to the front, as the leading que...”
“Im sure you can manage from here, and without a further word, he walked out of her room, then let himself out of her flat.”
“You stand fully clothed in a dark room with a spotlight on you. Its bright but not blinding. So bright, you think the light should warm you. Will you take off your clothes now, please. he says from...”
“He's very good at chaining girls. He can make cold steel feel like silk.”
“What a world it is, Cora thought, that makes a living prison into your only haven. Was she out of bondage or in its web: how to describe the status of a runaway?”
“Tests and persecutions will eventually lead to deliverance from bondage and make us stronger if we respond right to them”
“Whats the most difficult thing you can do? Live simply. Cause in order to be self-sufficient, you got to get well near everybody else to work for you.”
