Chains That Bind Quotes

• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Broken Heart, Faith

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.172, John Wiley & Sons

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• Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

  Tryon Edwards

  Strength, Broken, Spiders

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 212), 1891.

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• You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you.

  Gary Renard

  Realizing, Break, Chains

  Gary Renard (2004). “The Disappearance of the Universe”, p.65, Hay House, Inc

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• Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Past, Changing Your Life

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 11, 2013

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• Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Technology, Men, Unconscious

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.17, Cambridge University Press

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• To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ideas, Spirit, Realizing

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

  Jim Gerlach

  Bravery, Independence, Principles

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• How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!

  Margaret Mitchell

  Chains, Clutch

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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

  Antonio Porchia

  Broken Heart, Broken, Chains

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• Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Inspirational, Valentines Day

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• God's love is bigger than our failures and stronger than any chains that bind us.

  Jennifer Rothschild

  Love Is, Stronger, Bigger

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Memories, Links, Golden

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• A glance, a word -- and joy or pain befalls.... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Pain, Destiny, Joy

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

  Joseph Joubert

  Iron, Memorial, Generations

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• If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.

  Vaclav Havel

  Country, Links, Censorship

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• To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization is to be attained by renunciation, by meditation-renunciation of all the senses, cutting the knots, the chains that bind us down to matter.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Cutting, Ideas, Meditation

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.

  Antonio Porchia

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Break

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Then shoulder to shoulder! Let us engirdle the little circle of the earth with the chains that bind us to each other. To one end let us aim our thoughts, and to one end let us aim our souls. Hail, dawn of liberty, behind thee is the redeeming sun.

  Adam Mickiewicz

  Circles, Soul, Liberty

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