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Don’t be a slave of your thoughts and emotions
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Don’t be a slave to your mind
- The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind. Jack Adam Weber
- A wise man will be the master of his mind. A fool will be its slave. Publilius Syrus
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Don’t be a slave to the need to constantly achieve
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Don’t be a slave to your bad habits
- We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved. Sogyal Rinpoche
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Don’t be a slave to procrastination
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Don’t be a slave to desire
- Who covets more, is evermore a slave. Robert Herrick
- The man who is master of his passions is reason’s slave. Cyril Connolly
- The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man’s slavery. Paramahansa Yogananda
- How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire! Belva Plain
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Don’t be a slave to money
- Money doesn’t have to enslave you. How much money do you really need? How about having enough to do what you want, when you want to do it? Why would anyone need more than that? Henri Junttila
- Money is a means, not an end. Money is for freedom, not slavery; for security, not worry. Unless money is used to give you greater freedom and happiness, accumulating money is a burden. Richard Koch
- A great fortune is a great slavery. Seneca
- Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. Frank Herbert
- I want to teach you to master the power of money. Not be afraid of it. And they don’t teach that in school. If you don’t learn it, you become a slave to money. Robert Kiyosaki
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Don’t be a slave to the need for luxury
- For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold. Seneca
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Don’t be a slave to debt
- A man in debt is so far a slave. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The borrower is servant to the lender. The Bible
- When you get in debt you become a slave. Andrew Jackson
- Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. Ambrose Bierce
- Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. Warren Buffett
- Debt is the slavery of the free. Publilius Syrus
- Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt. Ezra Pound
- One of the advantages of possessing money is that it facilitates one’s independence and mental attitude. The man head over heels in debt is more slave than independent. C. Forbes
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Don’t be a slave to the need for approval
- When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. Tohias Wolff
- How do you react when you think you need people’s love? Do you become a slave for their approval? Do you live an inauthentic life because you can’t bear the thought that they might disapprove of you? Do you try to figure out how they would like you to be, and then try to become that, like a chameleon? In fact, you never really get their love. You turn into someone you aren’t, and then when they say, “I love you,” you can’t believe it, because they’re loving a facade. They’re loving someone who doesn’t even exist, the person you’re pretending to be. It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it, you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have. Byron Katie
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Don’t be a slave to pleasure
- It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. Epictetus
- Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free. William Cowper
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Don’t be a slave to your cravings
- In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. Ivan Illich
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Don’t be a slave of envy
- In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. Ivan Illich
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Don’t be a slave to the opinions of others
- Patterning your life around others’ opinions is nothing more than slavery. Lawana Blackwell
- Opinion
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Don’t be a slave to the fear of death
- Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers. Seneca
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Don’t be a slave to your ideas and beliefs
- A person does not have to be behind bars to be a prisoner. People can be prisoners of their own concepts and ideas. They can be slaves to their own selves. Maharaji
- Ideas, Belief
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Don’t be a slave to the past
- Do not let your shadow walk you. You are not a slave of the past. Dodinsky
- Our past may explain why we’re suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage. Joyce Meyer
- The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you. Mike Dolan
- Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Don’t be a slave to your unconscious reactions
- A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. Rita Mae Brown
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Don’t be a slave to the trivial
- In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately, we become enslaved by it. Robert Heinlein
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Don’t be a slave to time
- He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave. John Arthorne
- It’s what you do in your free time that will set you free—or enslave you. Jarod Kintz
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Don’t be a slave to your “to do” list
- In the midst of it all, we become slaves to our to-do lists and become doers instead of beers. We give ourselves little or no time feel, to more fully experience much of our lives. We forget that our capacity to feel is the very essence of our vitality. Without feeling, we become zombies or robots, and after a while we are left with a vague sense that our lives are unfulfilled, empty, lacking purpose, and devoid of anything resembling vitality. Anat Baniel
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Don’t be a slave to systems
- Systems for running our lives can be useful, but they can also enslave us. Time management can be the biggest trap of them all. It can creep into your psyche, and rather than freeing you up, it’s calling all the shots. Danielle LaPorte
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Don’t be a slave to rules
- Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. Henry David Thoreau
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Lack of knowledge leads to slavery …
- There is no slavery but ignorance. Robert Green Ingersoll
- Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. Frederick Douglass
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… especially lack of self-knowledge
- Without self-knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
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Lack of self-awareness leads to slavery
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Lack of inner life leads to slavery
- The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. Henri Frédéric Amiel
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Lack of understanding leads to slavery
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Lack of self-discipline leads to slavery
- Self-discipline allows a pitcher to feel his individuality, his inner strength, his talent. He is master of, rather than a slave to, his thoughts and emotions. A. Dorfman
- But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself. C. S. Lewis
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Lack of reasoning leads to slavery
- Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. George Gordon Byron
- Reason
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Marriage makes slaves of us all
- Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. Ambrose Bierce
- Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit. Irvin D. Yalom
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- Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery. Wayne Dyer
- Master your choices or become the slave of their consequences. Michael Rawls
- When you believe, or are led to believe, you are unable to act upon the greatest desires of the soul, the result is mental and spiritual enslavement. Iyanla Vanzant
- Many people in enlightened democracies spend much of their time feeling enslaved — not by the regime but by extrinsic factors that are self- imposed, such as prestige, a desire to please, obligation, or fear. They experience life as more or less a series of chores that they have to carry out rather than activities that they want to engage in. Tal Ben- Shahar
- Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. Abraham Lincoln
- Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. Walt Disney
- I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery. Thomas Jefferson
- Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be slaves of the things we do like. Ernest Benn
- He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave. William Drummond
- Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! Patrick Henry
- But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved. Lauren DeStefano
- Then groping and cautiously looking about me, I gradually found out what has enslaved you: YOUR SLAVE DRIVER IS YOU YOURSELF. No one is to blame for your slavery but you yourself. No one else, I say! Wilhelm Reich
- Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. Plato
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