Freedom Quotes
But still he remembered wondering, at the age of ten, is it better to be safe or to be free?
What happens in our hearts is our field of freedom. As long as we carry old wounds and anger in our hearts, we continue to suffer. Forgiveness allows us to move on.
I don't know where I belong, so I'm free. No one's got a hold on me.
Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied
Though it may sound paradoxical, identifying our thoughts, emotions, and habitual patterns of behavior is the key to freedom & transformation.
I wanna know what's going on out there. I'd hate to live my entire life inside the walls as an ignorant!
In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny.
I was able to take that first step to freedom.
Each of us needs something of an island in his life—if not an actual island, at least some place, or space in time, in which to be himself, free to cultivate his difference from others.
The God of this world has chosen to provide light to all mankind through His Son, who was crucified and died so that we could be cleansed and made free
To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte.
All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One.
A heroic act is not always followed by glory and parades and forever freedom, ” she said. “It’s often small, disregarded, or forgotten. But it matters.
Freedom runs faster than a Samoan cop that’s been paid to run. Freedom always run faster.
Freedom. He offered it like someone who didn't know what it meant, someone who had never had it taken away."pg 185
I had chosen freedom, with all its insecurities, and nothing in the world would make me turn away from it.
This is true freedom: to be capable of leaving ourselves, crossing the boundaries of our little world to open up the universe.
The Universe cares more about your empowerment and freedom from fear than it does just about anything. It's really true
To be respected is not my concern. So long as I seek to live in obedience to my Lord, respect will come accordingly from the people He deems it necessary.
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.
Because of the Dharma, my mind was more free in prison than worldly people experience in the best of circumstances.
Don’t let anybody to ruin your inner joy or to interfere in your marvellous rhythm!
What happens when I love, you ask, does the world start making sense? No, my dear, it does not. But it won’t matter to you then.
Rights’ are ‘privileges, ’ and if I am arrogant enough to demand the former without respecting the latter I will lose both.
The forces of freedom and choice will always triumph against the forces of conformity and control.
But no matter what happens, I spoke up, made a voice for myself, freed from the haunting memories that have owned me for the last six years. I found my courage.
It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude.
You've been taught to "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's". Unlearn that lesson. Free men would not permit Caesar to exist.
True freedom is in striving through adversities to accomplish all noble things that need to be done so that we may be free from any blame in the end!
Think while walking, walk while thinking, and let writing be but the light pause, as the body on a walk rests in contemplation of wide open spaces.
Those who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so.
You lift your head, you’re on your way, but really just to be walking, to be out of doors. That’s it, that’s all, and you’re there. Outdoors is our element: the exact sensation of living there.
And as we know from the pilgrimage diaries of Swami Ramdas, it is when we renounce everything that everything is given to us, in abundance. Everything: meaning the intensity of presence itself.
He had understood long ago that the past was no better than the present. That was as plain as day. One had to try to escape, to wrestle free from every era, so as not to be devoured by it.
Countries adopting free-market capitalism have increased output 70-fold, halved work days and doubled lifespans.
He loved Shevek, but he could not show him what freedom is, that recognition of each person's solitude which alone transcends it.