Quotes About Freedom

She is only a young woman who did not want to become a nun. The world is full of them.

What if you could just invent your family, your home, your life? You could. You could call Sunday Wednesday. Be awake and living at 3 a.m. Use T-shirts instead of sheets. Eat lettuce like an apple. Blow your nose on socks. Take four unrelated people and make a family.

I found a big groove ready waiting for me when I grew up, and in that I was expected to live whether it suited me or not. It did not suit me. It was deep and narrow, and gave me no room to move.

I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognise.

Freedom comes with responsibility; it comes with privilege and a conscience. It comes with difficult choices. We cannot stand by and allow the Authority to do what it is doing any more. We cannot wait for them to come and take apart what we've made. I will not allow it. You know me. I will not allow it.

Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass In accident time where there are no accidents You have no choice the choice comes after

He's following me... He needs to have a secret but he can´t help telling the heat is going out of me. The heart is going out of me, and though she cannot remember she cannot forget. Clutching a fistful of sand. What ties me to you is guilt. I crossed two rivers and wept by one I am the beast at the end of the rope Happy and free.

Us?ysz mnie, dostrze? mnie, dotknij mnie, kochaj mnie, uwolnij mnie!

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

If I could be free of you without having to lose you.

to feed, help, protect, comfort, console, support, nurse, or heal to be fed, helped, nursed, protected, comforted, consoled, supported, nursed, or healed to form mutually enjoyable, enduring, cooperating and reciprocating relationship with Other, with an equal to be forgiven to be loved to be free

It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.

More than anything he wanted to read, because only in a book could he escape from his own dark thoughts.

Judaism or Islam or Sikhism. I can be a believer in something bigger than what I can touch. I can make a leap of faith to a higher power in a way that's appropriate to my culture but not be imprisoned by it.  

I realize I don't have to be a Christian who follows the church, or a Buddhist nun in robes, or a convert to Judaism

It takes time to recover from having run somewhere. But sometimes one just wants to run. Anywhere.

Perfect happiness is the privilege of deciding when things end. But then you have to find a new happiness.

It's impossible to fail if one doesn't know how the end should look. And it's impossible to succeed. But it's possible to enjoy.

Just leave me alone, I want to be alone," she said when Jack tried to open the car door. She hit the lock, and wound the window up. Since the roof was down, it was a fairly pointless exercise.

It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel.