Quotes About Freedom

I prayed to the Lord, and he answered me. He freed me from all my fears. —Psalm 34:4

So if the Son sets you free, you are truly free. —John 8:36

Podríamos besarnos por la eternidad si no tuviéramos que ir a la escuela o al trabajo.

That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by experiences of the past.

Confidence in God's perfect love for our loved ones frees us to release them into His capable hands. — Michele Cushatt

Giving only what we've been given—God's love—lets others dance their own Swan Lake. — Gloria Ashby

He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins. —Ephesians 1:7

Have you celebrated your anniversary of spiritual freedom—of the time you learned how much God loves you? — Janet Graham —

All of us are prisoners, to one degree or another, of our experience.

Misery is optional.

Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve 'This Side of Wild' Excerpt

You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you.

Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties on rooftops where they reflect at length upon their quirky electronic childhoods and sometimes kiss each other on the lips and neck.

And you never felt like becoming an American? She didn't know why she was pressing him on this one point. That's for people without options, Ed said. Sorry, I mean... He trailed off. No, I get it. Nation in free fall.

Clambering up the Cold Mountain path, The Cold Mountain trail goes on and on: The long gorge choked with scree and boulders, The wide creek, the mist-blurred grass. The moss is slippery, though there's been no rain The pine sings, but there's no wind. Who can leap the world's ties And sit with me among the white clouds?

In the glittering light I got drunk and reeled through the rooms, And cried, "Cartagena! swamp of unholy loves!" And wept for the Indian whores who were younger than me, and I was eighteen, And splashed after the crew down the streets wearing sandals bought at a stall And got back to the ship, dawn came, we were far out at sea.

But the poem was born elsewhere, and need not stay. Like the wild geese of the Arctic it heads home, far above the borders, where most things cannot cross.

There are paths that can be followed, and there is a path that cannot- it is not a path, it is the wilderness. There is a going but no goer, no destination, only the whole field

Do not put too much faith in government

I love to roam around and I like tough self-discipline, I don't mind hard work and being poor never bothered me. I guess that's what makes it possible to carry on like I do. Being free doesn't mean evading necessity, it means outsmarting it.

Get drunk all the time. Go someplace and score. Walk in and walk out of the Asp Hike up Tam Keep quitting and starting at Berkeley Watch the pike in the Steinhart Aquarium: he doesn't move. Sleeping with stangers Keeping up on the news Chanting sutras after sitting Practicing yr frailing on guitar Get dropped off in the fog in the night Fall in love twenty times Get divorced Keep moving — move out to the Sunset Get lost — or Get found

Choice is a subtle form of disease. Don DeLillo, Running Dog

Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.

I am mistress of my own actions, M. de Chagny: you have no right to control them, and I will beg you to desist henceforth.