Quotes About Freedom

Control is an illusion. It doesn't work.

We can let ourselves enjoy life. If we want something and can afford it, buy it. If we want to do something that is legal and harmless, do it. When we're actually involved with doing something that is recreational, don't find ways to feel bad. Let go and enjoy life.

When you let go of fear and the need to control, you'll experience how mysterious, sacred, and interesting Life can be.

Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.

Can you feel the rush? Listen quietly. It's there. It's the sound of a life and spirit being set free. God, help me set myself free from ridiculous and unnecessary expectations.

Today, I will ask myself what I would be doing differently if I weren't trying to control. When I hear the answer, I will do it. God, help me let go of my need to control. Help me set myself and others free.

Today, I will understand that I hold the key to my freedom. I will stop participating in my oppression and victimization. I will take responsibility for myself, and let others do as they may.

When we attempt to control people and things that we have no business controlling, we are controlled.

The only limitations on you are the ones you've placed on yourself.

Free others to be who they are. In so doing, you will set yourself free.

How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar." —TRINA PAULUS, HOPE FOR THE FLOWERS

If you could have anything you wanted and it wouldn't be bad or wrong, what would that be? So

Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day

There's more. Stop working for the prize. Stop dating to get married. Stop dressing to control what people think. It's all about control. Control doesn't keep us safe, even though we think it does. People die in their houses walking down their steps. Do each thing for itself. Be there while you're doing it. Stop being someplace else. Let life be what it is.

For each of us, there comes a time to let go. You will know when that time has come. When you have done all that you can do, it is time to detach. Deal with your feelings. Face your fears about losing control. Gain control of yourself and your responsibilities. Free others to be who they are. In so doing, you will set yourself free.

In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me. And therefore three cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove boat and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot.

The only thing that isn't free is you. You do as you're told. You sit in your seat until they say 'Stand'. You stay put til they say 'Go'. Maybe that's the way you like it. It's easy. It's all there. You don't have to think about. You don't even have to feel it.

The magic girl licked the wet off her arms and looked over to me as if to say, See? You don't have to behave like them, you don't have to behave like anyone.

Debía cruzarlo y llegar a Bolivia, a Perú, al Amazonas. A la mierda, se dijo, pero ahora mismo. (...) -Mire, viejo: acábela, ¿quiere? Me voy a donde se me canta el culo, y me voy ya, ¿estamos?

She couldn't catch you anyways!

Peri went to the window, gesturing out at the dragons, perched and flying, everywhere. Safe, true, but how boring! How confining! How sad! How could that compare with this? And what is safe? You were not safe on your little farm. War came to you and took all your safety away! If I am to be in this world, I want more than to be a hound upon the game board, tucked away in a corner until the jackals come and sweep all away!

Remember this always: to have something, sometimes you must be willing to lose it. Love must live free, jel'enedra. Love must ever live free.

Because I'm a cat, silly. Cats do what cats will do, and neither man nor god can do anything about it. That's why Vkandis made us His instruments

Cats do what cats will do, and neither man nor god can do anything about it.