Mental Chains Quotes

#1. Ferranti's thoughts had been his. As before he had understood his remorse so now he understood the mental chains that had imprisoned him. The poor wretch could not move. Misery had become apathy and apathy had brought the inevitable paralysis of the will.

Elizabeth Goudge

#2. The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one's willingness to give oneself permission. To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.

Bill Drayton

#3. To see a tree in Winter is to see it for what it really is. A Winter tree is an object so intricate and so perplexing that if it hadn't already; been decided that Winter trees were plain and boring, we would be spending hours pondering them, staring at them in astonishment.

Vivian Swift

#4. The only reason to live is to love and the only reason to love is to live.

Tonya Hurley

#5. It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.

Craig Charles

#6. As a kid, I was definitely a DC guy. I started reading big time in the '80s at the height of the Wolfman/Perez 'New Teen Titans.' That was definitely the book that hooked me.

Jason Aaron

#7. Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time.

Jonathan Ive

#8. This misery of a gig called life is just a dream from which we all eventually awaken, he said. Nobody gets left behind. Even the most horrible dreams end.

Jeremy Massey

#9. The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

Voltaire

#10. Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.

Markus Zusak

#11. Jesus clearly said that you can do all that he did if you can believe, if you can center yourself in the creative flow, as he was always centered.

Eric Butterworth

#12. Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

John Steinbeck

#13. Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot - but not twice.

Diana Gabaldon

#14. I think if you're president, color goes away completely: you're president and it doesn't matter if you're white, green or purple.

Kathryn Stockett

#15. Tempus edax rerum.
Time that devours all things.

Ovid

#16. Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Henry Fielding

#17. My forte is awkwardness.

Zach Galifianakis

#18. No matter how often I pray, how many retreats I make, or how hard I try, I still sin. It is something that I bump up against daily.

James Martin