#chains

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. ↗

— Ovid

#broken #chains #given #happy #hurt

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#dance #garlands #golden #i #ropes

Man is everywhere still in chains. ↗

— Herbert Read

#everywhere #man #still

I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight. ↗

— LL Cool J

#chains #clip #do the right thing #dollar #eight

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#chains #everywhere #free #man

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#any #australian #because #bit #bought

To-day I wear these chains, and am HERE. To-morrow I shall be fetterless!--BUT WHERE? ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#death #life #death

I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#busy #chains #child #component #concentration

My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.' ↗

— Carol Leifer

#always #anything #because #been #breaking

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken. ↗

— Antonio Porchia

#broken #chains #closely #most #ones