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Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
Corrie Ten Boom
'Extending grace to oneself is unlocking the shackles of self-condemnation.'
2.
If you can't do anything about it then let it go. Don't be a prisoner to things you can't change.
Tony Gaskins
Release yourself from that which you cannot alter.
3.
Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
Stephen King
4.
We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.
Maxine Kumin
5.
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Ben Jonson
6.
The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.
John Berger
7.
Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner.
Chico Xavier
8.
Forgiveness sets the prisoner free. And realizing that prisoner was you. That's what forgiveness does. It sets you free.
Victoria Osteen
9.
You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
Sol LeWitt
10.
If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.
Peter Ustinov
11.
You are only a prisoner when you surrender.
Tad Williams
16.
You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.
Edie Brickell
18.
Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.
William Gurnall
19.
I will say, the one thing Mexico does well is punish prisoners. They do. They're good at that.
Tucker Carlson
20.
Structures of which we are unaware hold us prisoner.
Peter Senge
21.
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own.
Patrick McGoohan
22.
When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.
Andrew Cohen
23.
Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.
Johnny Cash
24.
Prejudice makes prisoners of both the hated and the hater.
Randy Shilts
25.
We are all prisoners of our thoughts.
Sam Harris
27.
Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.
Tom DeMarco
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I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.
Cornel West
29.
Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks.
Paulo Coelho
30.
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
31.
The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.
Jim Bishop
32.
It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?
Joan of Arc
33.
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.
Camille Paglia
34.
You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.
Louis C. K.
35.
Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.
Patti LaBelle
36.
The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.
Mason Cooley
37.
I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
Tom McClintock
38.
I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.
Hugo Chavez
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Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
40.
People don't even know that we have political prisoners.
Sekou Odinga
41.
I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen
Edwin Edwards
42.
The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated
Lewis Tappan
43.
You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.
Eric Cantona
44.
Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
45.
When I say the people around me, I mean the prisoners, the guards.
Lil Wayne
46.
The prisoner grows to love his chains.
Plato
47.
[To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.
Nancy Astor
48.
I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself.
Anchee Min
49.
My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
Paul McCartney
50.
Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?
Michael Moorcock