“I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.” MindPersonsBookBodyWantedStrongPrisonBetter PersonStrong MindStrong MindedGed Author:Ja Rule
“Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it not a dungeon, but a solitude. When the soul is in heaven, the body feels not the weight of fetters; it carries the whole man along with it.” MenFeelsSoulWholeBodyChristianJoyJesusHeavenChristLibertySolitudeJesus ChristWeightPrisonDesertProphetCarrieDungeonsFetters Author:Tertullian
“Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery - because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy.” MenHomeBodyFormNightSpaceLateRainPrisonMiseryHeavyBonesHungryPrivate Prisons Author:Willem de Kooning
“No one in this earthly prison of the body has sufficient strength of his own to press forward with a due degree of watchfulness, and the great majority [of Christians] are kept down with such great weakness that they stagger and halt and even creep on the ground, and so make very slight advances.” BodyChristianDegreesWeaknessMajorityPressesPrisonDuesSufficientCreepsHaltWatchfulness Book:Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life
“A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.” MindBodyAtheismDependsPrisonPositive Atheism Book:Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays Source: Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays
“I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.” MindBodyExamplePrisonCorsets Author:Isadora Duncan