“It is not a large world. Relatively even to this world of ours, which has its limits too (as your Highness shall find when you have made the tour of it and are come to the brink of the void beyond), it is a very little speck. There is much good in it; there are many good and true people in it; it has its appointed place. But the evil of it is that it is a world wrapped up in too much jeweller’s cotton and fine wool, and cannot hear the rushing of the larger worlds, and cannot see them as they circle round the sun. It is a deadened world, and its growth is sometimes unhealthy for want of air.” WorldEvilIgnoranceGoodTrueNarrownessConstraint Book:Bleak House Source: Bleak House
“Well then, he said. What are you doing here? I am not sure. Liberty I suppose. I lived so long under constraints. You wonder why I grub about in the mud - it's what I remember from childhood. Barely ever wearing shoes - picking gorse for cordial, watching the ponds boiling with frogs. And then there was Michael, and he was - civilised. He would pave over every bit of woodland, have every sparrow mounted on a plinth. And he had me mounted on a plinth. My waist pinched, my hair burned into curls, the colour on my face painted out, then painted in again. And now I'm free to sink back into the earth if I like - to let myself grow over with moss and lichen. Perhaps you're appalled to think we are no higher than the animals, or at least, if we are, only one rung further up the ladder. But no, no - it has given me liberty. No other animal abides by rules - why then must we?” NatureFreedomSilenceLibertyFeminismAuthenticityPatriarchyRulesConstraint Author:Sarah Perry
“The future is as complex as the flaws it inherits from the past, and as constrained as the habits we refuse to release.” PhilosophyPastChangeEvolutionHabitFutureReflectionComplexityIntrospectionConstraint Author:F.C. Quiles
“Don’t be bottled by them. Be bridled to freedom by truth.” LifeTruthFreedomPathChoiceConstraint Author:rgspmd
“Because we tend--often correctly--to associate unfreedom with the presence of oppressive circumstances that we can and should work to change, it makes sense that we might instinctively treat the knot of freedom and unfreedom as a source of perfidy and pain. To expose how domination disguises itself as liberation, we become compelled to pull the strands of the knot apart, aiming to extricate the emancipatory from the oppressive.” FreedomOppressionDominationConstraint Book:On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint Source: On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
“It is our courage which defines us, not our constraints” CourageConfidencePerseveranceConstraintsDefineConstraintDefine Your Life Author:Gyan Nagpal
“Love has the power to create an inviting space in the lives of people. But if daily routine kills dreamy or passionate thoughts, the constraint of the room may become oppressive and the emptiness unbearable. The room loses then its original fullness and turns into a place of nothingness. ( " Another empty room" )” PeopleLoveSpaceLove QuotesPowerThoughtsPassionateEmptinessRoutineNothingnessCreateFullnessUnbearableLivesLosePlaceInvitingOriginalDreamyDailyRoomOppressiveConstraint Author:Erik Pevernagie