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1 " A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery. "
― Steve Maraboli , Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
2 " Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain. "
― T.D. Jakes
3 " A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts. "
4 " Follow, poet, follow rightTo the bottom of the night,With your unconstraining voiceStill persuade us to rejoice;With the farming of a verseMake a vineyard of the curse,Sing of human unsuccessIn a rapture of distress;In the deserts of the heartLet the healing fountain start,In the prison of his daysTeach the free man how to praise. "
― W.H. Auden , Another Time
5 " In the prison of his daysTeach the free man how to praise "
― W.H. Auden
6 " Education shouldn’t be the prison of known knowledge, but it should be the bridge to find the yet unknown universe of knowledge. "
7 " Limitations and Disbelief are the Worst Rules That Create The Prison of The Mind. Be Limitless "
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8 " There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains. "
― George Bernard Shaw , Misalliance
9 " So what indeed! The lesson I myself learned over and over again when teaching at the college and then the prison was the uselessness of information to most people, except as entertainment. If facts weren't funny or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them. "
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Hocus Pocus
10 " Greed is the prison of poverty. "
11 " we are prisoners of our own lives, until we find the courage to break free from the prison that we created ourselves. "
12 " Professor Manley begins his first day of Uglification class by explaining why villains must be ugly to succeed. Ugliness releases you from the surface - from the prison of vanity and youur own looks - and sets you free to embrace the soul within. "
― Soman Chainani , The Last Ever After (The School for Good and Evil, #3)
13 " She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been. "
― Madeleine L'Engle , And Both Were Young
14 " When man penetrates the mysteries of Nature, the " facts of Nature" become transparent symbols, revealing the " divine energies" and the " angelic" state which fallen man has lost, and which he may recover only for a moment, as when he is enraptured by the beauty of music or of a lovely face. At such moments man forgets his limited self, his individualistic dream, and participates in the cosmic dream, thus becoming freed from the prison of his own carnal soul. "
15 " We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. When death sunders our nearest ties, alone we sit in the shadow of our affliction. Alike mid the greatest triumphs and darkest tragedies of life we walk alone. On the divine heights of human attainments, eulogized and worshiped as a hero or saint, we stand alone. In ignorance, poverty, and vice, as a pauper or criminal, alone we starve or steal; alone we suffer the sneers and rebuffs of our fellows; alone we are hunted and hounded through dark courts and alleys, in by-ways and highways; alone we stand in the judgment seat; alone in the prison cell we lament our crimes and misfortunes; alone we expiate them on the gallows. In hours like these we realize the awful solitude of individual life, its pains, its penalties, its responsibilities; hours in which the youngest and most helpless are thrown on their own resources for guidance and consolation. Seeing then that life must ever be a march and a battle, that each soldier must be equipped for his own protection, it is the height of cruelty to rob the individual of a single natural right. "
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton , Solitude of Self
16 " We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. When death sunders our nearest ties, alone we sit in the shadow of our affliction. Alike mid the greatest triumphs and darkest tragedies of life we walk alone. On the divine heights of human attainments, eulogized and worshiped as a hero or saint, we stand alone. In ignorance, poverty, and vice, as a pauper or criminal, alone we starve or steal; alone we suffer the sneers and rebuffs of our fellows; alone we are hunted and hounded through dark courts and alleys, in by-ways and highways; alone we stand in the judgment seat; alone in the prison cell we lament our crimes and misfortunes; alone we expiate them on the gallows. In hours like these we realize the awful solitude of individual life, its pains, its penalties, its responsibilities; hours in which the youngest and most helpless are thrown on their own resources for guidance and consolation. Seeing then that life must ever be a march and a battle, that each soldier must be equipped for his own protection, it is the height of cruelty to rob the individual of a single natural right. "
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton , The Woman's Bible
17 " Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well. "
― Peter Ustinov
18 " Find the window of unconditional love in your heart and liberate yourself from the prison of judgemental and conforming thoughts. "
― Debasish Mridha
19 " We are never free when we imprison ourselves in the prison of our fixed, false beliefs. "
20 " Forgiveness is the highest form of a gift of kindness and it brings freedom from the prison of hatred and revenge. "
