Best 125 quotes in «bondage quotes» category

Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment.

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

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

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

He who asserts he is free, shall be free. He who says he is bound, bound he shall remain.

For me, bondage makes me feel powerless and annoyed. It's like, can you untie me?

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

Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter.

I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.

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

If you're involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it's bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.

If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy 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

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.

If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.

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

I knew absolutely nothing about bondage. I'd always presumed it was just an inventive way of keeping your partner from going home.

... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.

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

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

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.

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

My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.

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.

Marriage. Don't be pressured into it. Is the fear of loneliness really greater than the fear of 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.

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.

"Our prosperity, our friends, our bondage and even our destruction are all in the end rooted in our tongue," says a famous adage.

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

The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.

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

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

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

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

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one finds freedom.

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.

When we surrender every area of our lives- including our finances-to God, then we are free to trust Him to meet our needs. But if we would rather hold tightly to those things that we possess, then we find ourselves in bondage to those very things.

Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.

A cage stokes our emotions and imaginations, regardless of whether you are inside looking out, or outside looking in.

According to Abhinavagupta, a yogin who is established in the understanding and experience of supreme non-dualism, sees only one reality shining in all mutually opposite entities like pleasure and pain, bondage and liberation, sentience and insentience, and so on, just as an ordinary person sees both a ghata and a kumbha as only one thing (a pot) expressed through different words (Tantraloka, 11.19).

As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.

Cages, spanking benches, sawhorses, bondage tables. Scene after scene. Throaty moans, high screams, whining, whimpering, and groaning. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. All his cop instincts shouted for him to get his cuffs out and start arresting people.

Damn, you’re soft. I have trouble keeping my hands off you.” Okay, serious melty stuff.

Each time we make a choice we are either moving toward freedom and prosperity or bondage and misery.