R. A. Salvatore Quotes

I feel like everyone just gets constricted by their parents or, just, life.

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

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.

I've seen so many people in my life struggle tremendously to fit into those boxes or to live up to those expectations or pressures put upon them by whatever society's concept of 'normal' is. I get frustrated by rules and regulations. I'm frustrated by things that are exclusive to one particular life choice.

I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.

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

Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.

You can't live your life to suit other people. The harder you try, the more restrictions they'll put on you just for the fun of seeing you jump through their hoops.

I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.

Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

I was stuck in the feeling that one did not--was not justified in being alive unless one was fulfilling other people's dreams, whether they were contractual dreams or the public's dreams, or fulfilling my own dreams and illusions about what I thought I was supposed to be, which, in retrospect, turned out to not be what I am.

It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon us.

Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?

When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.

Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.

There are worse prisons than words.

You expect me to believe that you're being held against your will?" I raised a skeptical eyebrow. "You're roaming around the castle freely." "As are you." He turned away from me then. "Not all prisons have bars. You should know that better than anyone, Princess.

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.

No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.

By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it.

I have always thought limousines make me dreadfully uncomfortable, just the way that suits do. When I wear a suit, I feel like ants and termites are crawling all over my body. It's really, really uncomfortable. People put themselves in a kind of prison. It's like the world of the embassies.

When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a tragicee and future divorcee, you'll also find that people will question you on the biggest decisions you've ever made in your life as though you hadn't thought about them at all before – as though, through their twenty questions and dubious faces, they're going to shine light on something that you missed the hundredth time around during your darkest hours.

Stuffing people into boxes is for those who have issues about their own box.

There are no rules in life. It’s a mind-set that limits people dramatically.