Self-imposed Prison Quotes

#1. Your self-imposed prison. That think called your COMFORT ZONE. Challenge it, stretch it. You will thank yourself.

Tony Curl

#2. Morrow [ ... ] felt that OASIS had evolved into something horrible. It had become a self-imposed prison for humanity. A pleasant place for the world to hide from its problems while human civilization slowly collapses, primarily due to neglect.

Ernest Cline

#3. A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.

Albert Einstein

#4. Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love.

Rick Warren

#5. Don't imprison yourself through self-doubt. Break out of your self-imposed prison with intentional action.

Tony Curl

#6. Many people live in a self-imposed prison and don't even know it.

Lee L Jampolsky

#7. Awakenings are always terrifying as they force you to realize your past has been lived in confinement, the most disturbing part is when you recognize that the shackle holding you down are largely once you have placed upon yourself, the prison is self constructed

Dean Karnazes

#8. But one mustn't underestimate the primal appeal - to lose one's self, lose it utterly. And in losing it be born to the principle of continuous life, outside the prison of mortality and time.

Donna Tartt

#9. Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

John Ortberg

#10. When in Reading Gaol he told me that the warders in the dock had been gentle and kind, but the visit of the chaplain in his first prison began with these words:
'Mr. Wilde, did you have morning prayers in your house?'
'I am sorry ... I fear not.'
'You see where you are now!

Charles Ricketts

#11. Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self-doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality.

Steve Maraboli

#12. Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully.

Tara Brach

#13. Today is the day to break free from the prison of the person you know yourself to be and step into a self you have yet to know. Will it be comfortable? No, but do it anyway.

Debbie Ford

#14. The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#15. Without God, there is a danger that we will stay trapped within the prison of the self. As

Jonathan Sacks

#16. I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.

Bat For Lashes

#17. Life is like a prison. To survive it is through self-healing and absolute dignity.

Izad

#18. We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.

Cyril Connolly

#19. By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We become our human selves,

Ann Druyan

#20. I know genes are a big deal, son, but they're not the be-all and end-all." Rob slowed to a halt at the lights, wishing the dickhead behind would back off. "If they were, you'd be in a seafood salad and I'd be in prison.

Karen Traviss

#21. Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful.

Criss Jami

#22. Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

Henry Van Dyke

#23. Joseph went from kidnap experience to pit, to slavery, to prison then to PRIME MINISTER

Ikechukwu Joseph

#24. Comfort ... was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.

Ashim Shanker

#25. I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.

Lewis H. Lapham

#26. To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.

Margaret Atwood

#27. In prison it must be made rich Library, people must educate their self there. Not to go stupid and more.

Deyth Banger

#28. He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

Stephen R. Covey

#29. Self-doubt imprisons those that never overcome it.

Obiora Embry

#30. Will you treat people who make you miserable, as prison guards, or travel agents?

Leslie Miklosy

#31. The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!

Israelmore Ayivor

#32. Joseph went from prison to prime minister from trials to triumph, from scar-weary to stardom

Ikechukwu Joseph

#33. Sticks and stones can break my bones and I have my Swiss Army Knife if they hit me and if I kill them it will be self defense and I won't go to prison.

Mark Haddon

#34. History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#35. Once the wounded child awakens to its human self, a primal scream emerges from the depths of denial like the Kraken released from its underwater prison.

Christopher Zzenn Loren

#36. We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.

Jason Whitlock

#37. So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of prison" Chip said.

Jonathan Franzen

#38. You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#39. The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Elizabeth Drew

#40. That missleproof glass might as well have been electrified fence and barbed wire. No one could fashion a prison so perfect, so complete, as the one the masters of humanity had created for themselves.

S.J. Kincaid

#41. I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.

Tullian Tchividjian

#42. The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.

John Lubbock

#43. Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.

Mumia Abu-Jamal