To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner. — George Savile Copy Share Image
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner! — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
[To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not. — Nancy Astor Copy Share Image
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine... — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Forgiveness sets the prisoner free. And realizing that prisoner was you. That's what forgiveness does. It sets you free. — Victoria Osteen Copy Share Image
This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are. — Philip Davies Copy Share Image
“Freedom awaits the person who chooses to move forward and to those who refuse to remain a prisoner or victim of their… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
The Communist torturers often said, 'There is no God, no hereafter, no punishment for evil. We can do what we wish.' I… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court of Canada has given prisoners the "right" to vote. Is it not time that non-jailed citizens were given reciprocity… — Brian Day Copy Share Image
The same things that we hurray and support in other places, like people like Nelson Mandela, our prisoners were doing the same… — Sekou Odinga Copy Share Image
We need to 'go out,' then, in order to experience our own anointing, its power and its redemptive efficacy: to the 'outskirts'… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“His voice was so faint that it was audible only to those in the first rows. “I haven’t got much to say,… — Kimberly Tilley Copy Share Image
The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I just find it absolutely amazing that the narrative about this situation is not put out publically in the press, because it… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“It seems to me just as imbecile, just as infernal, to have to go to the office on Monday," said Jonathan, "as… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As we trooped back out through the shower room door, the S.S. men ran their hands over every prisoner, back, and sides.… — Corrie ten Boom Copy Share Image
In regeneration, the mind is enlightened in the knowledge of spiritual things... The will is renewed... The will is cured of its… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
If you're working on better conditions for prisoners, if you make that a popular issue and you invite mainstream media to weigh… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The word which is best said came nearest to not being spoken at all, for it is cousin to a deed which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
I gained an inner peace, the serenity of a prisoner, so to speak. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol Copy Share Image
The prisoner never loves his warden, even if he obeys the rules from time to time. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
“Sarah couldn’t handle prison and prison couldn’t handle her,” the inquest jury heard from a fellow prisoner.” — The Guardian Copy Share Image
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image