Quotes About Freedom

Limitations can be liberating when your strongest desire is living close to Me.

When you are with someone you trust completely, you feel free to be yourself. This is one of the joys of true friendship.

Break free of your problems by worshiping Me in songs, in shouts, even in whispers.

Though I yearn to help, I will not violate your freedom. I stand silently in the background of your mind, waiting for you to remember that I am with you.

LEARN TO LAUGH at yourself more freely. Don't take yourself or your circumstances so seriously. Relax and know that I am God with you. When you desire My will above all else, life becomes much less threatening. Stop trying to monitor My responsibilities—things that are beyond your control. Find freedom by

A life lived close to Me is not complicated or cluttered. When your focus is on My Presence, many things that once troubled you lose their power over you.

I CAME INTO YOUR LIFE TO MAKE YOU FREE. If you're involved in hurtful relationships, I will help you change them or break free; if you are trapped in addictions, I will help you take the first step toward freedom—honest confession of the truth. In every situation, the truth will set you free.

They meant to rob us good Protestants of our freedom, our possessions, and our lives, all for the greater glory of their pope. Probably daughters would be ravished as well. The experts were divided on that point.

I can say no at any time " "Yes." "But aren't I supposed to do whatever you say " "Only if you want to. That's what makes the power exchange of D s so potent. It's a free exchange one that is meant to give us both what we need.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

The end of Wisdom is freedom. The end of culture is perfection. The end of knowledge is love. The end of education is character.

The moment you resent a person, you become his slave. Living with resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other guy to get sick. The person who is the focus of your animosity may be feeling just fine, enjoying life, and not troubled while you are letting them rent space in your brain. Resentment gives you illusions of strength.

Restricted happiness is better than the freedom of solitude." -Yuichi to Wataru

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

A writer should be able to express himself easily, naturally, copiously in a form that frees his mind, his energies. Why should he hobble himself with formalities?

If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

Thus the greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. From

Conflict is the essential core of a free and open society.

Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.

Only when I turned thirty did I finally feel for the first time that I was free, that I could live as I liked, as an individual. It's as if at thirty, I'd been born for the first time. Until then, I was never more than someone's tool.

going to sea is like going to prison with the added possibility of drowning.

Throw the puppy into the water. If it swims, well. If it sinks, well. But do not tie a rope around its throat and weight it with a brick and then assert its incapacity to keep afloat.

Was it courage that made her take the last step, or weakness? Was it loss that walked her to the edge, or a search for freedom?