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Welcome to these Imprison Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
You can chain me, you can torture me,
you can even destroy this body,
but you will never imprison my mind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy
than to imprison a person
or keep him in prison because he is unpopular.
This is really the test of civilization.
- Winston Churchill
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly,
the true place for a just man is also a prison.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our houses are such unwieldy property
that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
- Henry David Thoreau
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
The universe is wider than our views of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
- Werner Erhard
Each of us dwells in a cathedral of our own BEing
that is created vast enough to encompass Unity with all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.
Its seat is in the heart,
and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
We can't control the impressions others form about us,
and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
We get to CHOOSE the meaning for our lives.
Our lives mean exactly what we say they do - no more, no less.
Each of us chooses their path in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
The key to growth is the introduction of
higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
- Lao Tzu
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The River of Life flows - and all else is our drama.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Most of the shadows of life are caused
by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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