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Quotes About Freedom

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.
~ Emily Giffin
The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time.
~ Feist
The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.
~ Florence L. Barclay
Being heartbroken is like having this really horrible freedom. You can be selfish with your thoughts, which can lead to manic creativity, but at the same time you're just really miserable.
~ Florence Welch
Fears are just conditioning. They don't exist. They are something that we are taught by people who are afraid or seek to make us afraid. It is time to unload the baggage.
~ Frederick Lenz
Free yourself from happiness and unhappiness. Realize there is something beyond both and yet, revel in your time, revel in this world.
~ Frederick Lenz
I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.
~ Gary Coleman
Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion.
~ George D. Prentice
Guard your children's free time - from you.
~ Gretchen Rubin
I am not a huge fan of being around people all the time. I really like being able to leave people.
~ Guy Branum
After you free yourself from the incredible expectations of love through the media from the time you were so high, you realise that it's the spaces between the notes that make music.
~ Hector Elizondo
Wherever I am in the world, if I get free time when I'm filming I always hire a car, take to the road, drive for miles and explore.
~ Helen Mirren
It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.
~ Henry David Thoreau
What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!
~ Henry David Thoreau
You shouldn't rely on others to help you determine what's good and what's bad. In no time at all, you'll simply be under someone else's control.
~ Hiroyuki Takei
It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.
~ Holland Taylor
You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
~ Irwin Shaw
Any time in America when the military has to stand in opposition of their own citizenry, something is wrong.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.
~ Jack Kemp
And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains. I had to get to Denver at once.
~ Jack Kerouac
Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.
~ James Hillman
You can't shape me anymore. I am the uncontrolled element, the random act. I am forward movement in time. You think you can see me? Then tell me, who am I? You don't know.
~ Janet Fitch
Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression.
~ Jeff Smith