Trapped Quotes

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.

  Albert Einstein

  People, Everyday, Numb

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• People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Thinking, People, Way

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• We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

  Anais Nin

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• You don't have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.

  C. Douglas Dillon

  Thinking, Understanding

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• Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter.

  Michael Oher

  Motivational, Encouraging, Dream

  Michael Oher (2012). “I Beat The Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond”, p.192, Penguin

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• Trapped in a trap of your own making.

  David Baldacci

  Traps

  David Baldacci (2012). “The Innocent”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

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• In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are

  Guy Finley

  May, Who We Are, Traps

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Dec 05, 2013

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• Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  People, Nonviolent Communication, Feels

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• We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

  Tennessee Williams

  Fire, House, Looks

  Tennessee Williams (1971). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. Kingdom of Earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. The two-character play”, p.107, New Directions Publishing

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• We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.

  Mark Lawrence

  Wall

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• You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you and wherever you go, there you are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, House

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• When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.

  Joseph Campbell

  Understanding, Mind, Mythology

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.68, Anchor

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• Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.

  Charles Bukowski

  Break Out, Lines, Cameras

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• Listen as the wind blows
  From across the great divide
  Voices trapped in yearning
  Memories trapped in time

  Sarah McLachlan

  Memories, Blow, Wind

  Song: Possession

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• The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

  David Frum

  Elites

  "Frum thinks critique of GOP led to boot". Interview with Mike Allen, www.politico.com. March 26, 2010.

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• And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Quotation Marks, Upside Down, Ends

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• Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Slaughterhouse Five, Matter, Why Me

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• There's a problem which is when you're trapped in your own identity and everything is really you, then you feel less freedom to sort of explore who you want to be. So I think it's kind of something we're stuck with as long as humans are the way we are.

  Tim Wu

  Thinking, Long, Identity

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Spring, Cutting

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• We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there.

  Mason Cooley

  Illness, Refuge

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