Bondage Quotes

The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.

Some people are into bondage... and some people are into crossdressing.. . and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish.

Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.

Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage.

The only person I did bondage for was Irving Klaw and his sister Paula. Usually they would shoot four or five models every Saturday. He wouldn't pay for the regular pictures unless we did some bondage. So I did bondage shots to get paid for the other photos.

It is all up to us. We are the ones who have to keep looking at our thoughts, looking for the nature of our mind. there is nobody else in control of our lives, our experiences, our freedom or our bondage.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief,"I am the do-er."

I will lead my people out of bondage, Lord.

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

Where no bondage is, there is no cause and effect.

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Truth is that which, when fully realized, sets you free from all bondage and all seeking.

Being aware of the bondage is enough to free you from its clutches.

Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

If you dare declare that you are free, free you are this moment. If you say you are bound, bound you will remain.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.

Wherever there is desire and ambition, you are in bondage.

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind

We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free

Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud.

There was bondage in love; no one had told her that love took away freedom.

His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.

A man cannot be comfortable spiritually who is in bondage financially.

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.

Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.

If we, who have been redeemed, don't say what we have been redeemed from, how are those in the same bondage going to even know that there is hope.

Where are you looking at blessing as bondage, something you GET to do as something you've GOT to do?

A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself.

The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

Do we always make our freedom out of someone else's bondage?

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

If you begin with the assumption of freedom, the preoccupation is always how to keep freedom in check, how to bind; But if you begin with the assumption of bondage, the preoccupation is always how to set out the word that frees.

After all, when you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves, rather than looking to the oppressors to free us.

Music isn't seeking to comment on the experience or transmit some finding about it - it is only seeking to express it. The vicarious experience is much more accessible. We all recognize the sound of that howling, because we all have a similar howling inside of us, however we heed it or hold it or muzzle it or repress it or live in bondage to it.

It wasn't often you ran into bondage/Elvis/whorehouse-themed vampire club

One has neither independence nor freedom from bondage when he is obligated to others

To weep is a sign of weakness, of bondage.