Quotes About Freedom

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure….you are above everything distressing.

Baruch Spinoza

Surrendering is not the giving up of something. True surrender is the total acceptance of yourself. You're not 'losing' anything in the surrender, the way your society usually means that word. You are not giving up anything in the sense of loss. Surrender means to open up: Open up to your total self; to give in and let go of the things you think you're supposed to be. Just be who you are. It will see you through.

The greatest gift creation has given to all of you is that life is fundamentally meaningless. That means it has no built-in meaning. What that also means is, you were designed to give it the meaning you prefer to give it. And the meaning you give it will utterly determine how you experience it.

People who practice freedom of expression are terrorizing our grammatical way of life.

I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.

I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly. All your life, you have only waited for this moment to arise.

I got no car and it's breaking my heart But I've found a driver and that's a start

Do what you want to do And go where you're going to Think for yourself 'Cause I won't be there with you

Baby, you can drive my car Yes, I'm gonna be a star Baby, you can drive my car And maybe I'll love you

His style was the exact opposite of his technical work; his line was loose, economical, free. And he wanted to capture what he couldn't keep, the fleeting, the transient.

You can't do anything to please anybody or say anything to please them or even dress so they'll be happy and give you a smile.

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!

We march on toward the realization of the American Dream. We are not diverted by those who would deny opportunity based on what we look like or where we came from or who would deny equality based on who we love.

Efforts to support gay rights by GOP state legislators in several states are real and indicative of an increasing realization that expanding equal opportunity and freedom to gay Americans shouldn't be a partisan issue.

Some people's gender identity conforms to the sex they were assigned at birth, and some people's identity doesn't. That realization was certainly very freeing for me - and could be very freeing for other people.

I finished my degree and realized I had a lot of free time on my hands.

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

I realized I was an attractive older woman who never wanted to settle down.

It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.

I think I'm just realizing what a huge luxury it is to be able to do whatever we want on television.