"Care about what others think and you will always be their prisoner."
-Lao Tzu
Pretty powerful quotes, reinforcing the principal that our freedom lies within ourselves.
Anything that we give power outside of ourselves is incarcerating us to that person, or thing. Doesn't matter if it is Money, Political leader, Religion, etc...
Along the same lines....
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
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John Milton
Paradise Lost
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