Henry Van Dyke Quotes

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

You cannot outperform your ego.

Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-

you parrot negative things and squawk about the things you don't love, you are literally jailing yourself, like a parrot in a cage. Every time you talk about what you don't love, you are adding another bar to the cage and you are locking yourself away from all the good.

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.

Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

All of us should do what we want and have to do. We can only limit ourselves.

Sometimes you have to protect players from themselves.

If you're nervous you think: 'I don't want to make mistakes or give the ball away.' But you limit your own qualities then.

Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee.

The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt.

This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

for the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.

When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They become rigid and defensive, and their self stops growing.

When I connect to my soul, project it into another #‎ character , and then bring it to the stage or to a film--that has always been for me the great joy of #‎ acting . It's been as if my soul kind of leaps out of my body and is able to be free and dance around.

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.

Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.

The moment you surrender to love and allow it to lead you to exactly where your soul wants to go, you will have no difficulty.