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Quotes About Freedom

Anxiety may be the dizziness of freedom.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
A choice that is not used is worse than nothing; it is a snare in which a person has trapped himself as a slave who did not become free
~ Soren Kierkeggard
What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.
~ Soygal Rinpoche
Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life. Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.
~ Gayle Forman
Play is where life lives
~ George A. Sheehan
I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up forever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.
~ George Eliot
We want more people owning things in this country. Let me put it to you bluntly: In a changing world, we want more people to have control over your own life.
~ George W. Bush
Life in America shows that liberty, paired with law, is not to be feared.
~ George W. Bush
I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.
~ George W. Bush
The only object of liberty is life.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
There's no right one way to go through life.
~ Gillian Jacobs
The president should not be able to make me or you ever worried about what's going to happen in our personal life.
~ Glenn Beck
Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.
~ Gregory David Roberts
No experience in life is set in stone unless we ourselves have unwittingly poured the concrete!
~ Guy Finley
Don't take life so seriously. Have fun. Enjoy your time on this planet.
~ Haley Pullos
At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.
~ Harry S. Truman
Life's too short to be sat at home writing all the time.
~ Helen Hodgman
Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land.
~ Henri Nouwen
When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glorious private life. No, I am not patriotic.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
~ Henry James
I have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour.
~ Henry Rollins
Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.
~ Horace Greeley
The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.
~ Howard Thompson