Quotes About Mental Prisons

#1. If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.

Ram Dass

#2. Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape.

Deepak Chopra

#3. Ideologies are mental prisons that produce blindness.

Fernando Araya

#4. People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.

Pete Earley

#5. The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history.

R. Edward Freeman

#6. Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.

Angela Davis

#7. My father always told me that to be successful at anything, whether it was baseball or tiddlywinks, you have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to do more than the kid down the street if you want to be better than he is.

Lance Berkman

#8. Friendship is not an obligation or duty. It is a sweet responsibility.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions

Hillary Clinton

#10. For him, the kampung was a place to live and work that was based on a steadfast and intimate relationship between man and nature. The village was a true reflection of life in the tropics.

Isa Kamari

#11. Guys who always shined their shoes were usually self-involved asswipes who figure superficiality trumps substance.

Harlan Coben

#12. Rejoice in your troubles, all things will work for your good.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. He has as yet no perfect love, whose disposition towards men depends on what they are like, loving one and despising another for this or that, or sometimes loving, sometimes hating one and the same man. Blessed is the man who can love all men equally.

Maximus The Confessor

#14. If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.

Scott Wolf

#15. Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

Michel Foucault

#16. If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#17. President Bush has committed billions to the fight against AIDS, thus making retroviral drugs available to millions of HIV-positive Africans.

Tony Snow

#18. Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

Jamie Fellner

#19. We need open, competitive, market economies ... but at the same time with effective regulation and supervision.

Jose Manuel Barroso

#20. Stop looking for a scapegoat in your life but be willing to face the truth within yourself & right your own wrongs

Eileen Caddy

#21. Faith does not come from our understanding. It comes from the heart. We do not believe because we understand; we understand because we believe (see Heb. 11:6). We'll know when our mind is truly renewed, because the impossible will look logical.

Bill Johnson

#22. It is a law of life that human beings, even the geniuses among them, do not pride themselves on their actual achievements but thatthey want to impress others, want to be admired and respected because of things of much lower import and value.

Stefan Zweig

#23. Would that my hands were meant to build. I would know what to say. What to do. Maybe in another life I would have been that man. In this one, my words, like my hands, are clumsy. All they can do is cut. All they can do is break.

Pierce Brown

#24. Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion that there is no ghetto and no door. The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars.

Tariq Ramadan

#25. My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

Ernest Hemingway,