You have to make the rules, not follow them

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

For when you have subjected to externals what is your own, then be a slave and do not resist, and do not sometimes choose to be a slave, and sometimes not choose, but with all your mind be one or the other.

The thing is to play your own game - not let the other feller force you to what he wants.

It’s your game. Make up your own rules.

Emperors must make their own rules.

Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men

The dilemma posed by a choice between rules and men largely begs the question. There are, to be sure, times when rules, constraints, commitments, contract or treaty provisions stand in the way and should be transcended because of force majeure, acts of God, some deus ex machina that makes clear that all bets are off. ... If one relies on men of responsibility to make the right choice in crisis among conflicting rules, or to follow an altogether different course for which no precedent exists, there is a danger of creating new precedents and new rules, which may be applied mistakenly under different circumstances. … The alternative to rules—men, which of course includes women—begs another question. Men have different responsibilities, principles, understandings, interests.

It’s what you do in your free time that will set you free — or enslave you.

Rule your mind or it will rule you. — Horace Between

You are a victim of the rules you live by.

says, and I find I agree, You have to break rules if you want to break free.

I am not against rules, but the rules should arise out of your understanding. They should not be imposed from the outside. I am not against discipline! but discipline should not be slavery. All true discipline is self-discipline. And self-discipline is never against freedom — in fact, it is the ladder to freedom. Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice. And they are ready to risk anything for it. Let your own awareness decide your lifestyle, life pattern. Don’t allow anybody else to decide it. That is a sin, to allow anybody else to decide it. Why is it a sin? Because you will never be in your life. It will remain superficial, it will be hypocrisy.