Prisoner Of My Own Mind Quotes

#1. I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

Barry Zito

#2. The mind is its own beautiful prisoner.
Mind looked long at the sticky moon
opening in dusk her new wings
then decently hanged himself,one afternoon.
The last thing he saw was you
naked amid unnaked things ...

E. E. Cummings

#3. I'm so very tired of being held prisoner by my own mind.

Kathryn Perez

#4. I think the only reason I never lost my mind is that I knew I was innocent. That wasn't a happy thought, so the dementors couldn't suck it out of me...but it kept me sane and knowing who I am...helped me keep my powers...

J.K. Rowling

#5. I'm not sure if that answers the question and I have absolutely no problem with any major world religion on Earth.

John Hodgman

#6. I had been shackled, a prisoner in my own mind

Tahereh Mafi

#7. Mortal birth is a boon to which only those spirits who kept their first estate are eligible.

James E. Talmage

#8. Even as it clouds our corporeal vision, intoxication clarifies our spiritual vision. The mind, set free from the heavy bondage of the body, flees away like a prisoner whose guard has fallen asleep, leaving the keys at the prison gate.

Gerard De Nerval

#9. Human mind is subject to the law of cause and effect.
IF not, THEN you have no idea about IF-THEN algorithm.

Toba Beta

#10. Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.

Haruki Murakami

#11. You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.

Augusten Burroughs

#12. But an ink brush, she thinks, is a skeleton key for a prisoner's mind.

David Mitchell

#13. When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.

Andrew Cohen

#14. I quickly crossed the room

Michael Connelly

#15. When you are a prisoner in your own mind, imprudence soon becomes your cellmate.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. Depression simply is. It has no beginning and no end, no boundaries and no world outside itself. It is the first, the last, the only, the alpha and the omega. Memories of better times die upon its desolate shores. Voices drown in its seas. The mind becomes its own prisoner.

Alexis Hall

#17. Sadie heard a flurry of wing snap as yellow, orange, and tiger-striped moths flew into the light. Dean stood haloed by moths that pulsed like slips of paper along his shoulders and arms. He lifted each one on his finger, naming them for her.

Susan Tekulve

#18. I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?'
If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?

Terry Pratchett

#19. The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?

F. W. De Klerk

#20. It is often difficult to educate a child about the beauty of an open mind when he is a prisoner of societal conformity.

Debasish Mridha

#21. The essence of a religious approach to the world, it seems to me, is to be found, not in the imposition of theological dogma, but in the recognition of what is actually there.

John Barton

#22. To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#23. The prisoner's recurrent, sporadic dreams of escape were simply that - spurious vagaries dismissed almost as quickly as they blossomed in Schkirt's feverish mind.

Stanley Goldyn

#24. If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

Peter Ustinov

#25. Everyone seems to want to be somewhere they aren't. Choose to be where you are right now and you will be happier than 90 percent of humankind.

Ernie J Zelinski

#26. It is necessarily so, since every traditional art obeys a particular spiritual economy that limits its themes and means of expression, so that an abandonment of that economy almost immediately releases new and apparently unlimited artistic possibilities.

Titus Burckhardt

#27. Mind is prison of one's potential
which can be freed by his dreams.

Toba Beta

#28. Change your mind as often as possible. Just because you thought something yesterday doesn't mean you have to think it today. Don't ever become a prisoner of your own opinion

Harvey Fierstein

#29. Each human is created for a purpose in this life. None of these purposes is revenge.

Sameh Elsayed

#30. I man is a prisoner of only his own mind.

Michael Hawkins

#31. Nothing is free. If you want it, you have to fight for it.

Ilona Andrews

#32. I always wanted to be a teacher. A bit of me still wants to be a teacher.

Max Irons

#33. Hi's nose was pressed to his window. I've changed my mind, Tory. This is the perfect place to hold someone prisoner. I'm keeping this on file.

Kathy Reichs

#34. Servers make very little in regular wages and largely rely on tips to pay the bills and budget for weeks ahead.

Kevin McCarthy

#35. Annabeth glared at me, and I started to wish I hadn't asked her about this while she was holding a knife.

Rick Riordan

#36. Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are.

Shannon L. Alder

#37. What can you do to make a difference? And why should you do it? ( ... ) the scale of one's social investments doesn't matter. What matters is that you operate as a force for good at every scale available to you.

Richard Branson