Quotes About Freedom

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

I will choose my own fall, which is ascension

You can't rid yourself of freedom the way you'd rid yourself of lice, brother.

Tam jede naÅ¡e nadÄ›je. NaÅ¡e mládež. Bojovat za Svobodnou Evropu. A co vy tady? Tisknete razítka na zadek telegrafistky!

Once, for three hundred crowns, I became a saint for an instant: I bought up all the goldfinches, then released them from my hand. Oh, what a feeling when a terrified little bird flies from your palm to freedom!

You can't live without cracks in the brain. You can't rid yourself of freedom the way you'd rid yourself of lice.

Life, strangely enough, is constantly being reinvented, and loved, even though a tinfoil brain will bring forth crumpled images, and a trampled torso will ooze misery. And yet, it is still a beautiful thing when a man abandons his three square meals a day and his adding machine and his family and goes off to follow a beautiful star. Life is still magnificent as long as one maintains the illusion that an entire world can be conjured from a tiny patch of earth.

There is a rumor that seven states are considering overpruning as a cause for divorce, second only to incompatibility and adultery. I hope our state is one of them. No judge would dare deny me freedom after he heard the story of my privet hedge.

We have only scratched the surface of what would be possible if end users could freely program their own applications,

Her momentary awakening can be called a "glimpse of freedom" or a "touch of grace." Many who experience it feel distressed when it passes, but its transience can offer encouragement to keep entering the silence of meditation

Enlightenment" describes a natural consciousness and presence that is fully awakened to its own true nature. This liberation, as I'll explore in Part Three, feels like freedom, peace, and at times an irrepressible love without conditions. We deeply relax into life, and a way of being unfolds that does not feel at all personal.

True freedom is moving beyond all clinging and attachments, whether mystical or mundane. It is not a moving beyond enjoyment of either, just releasing the tendency to make demands or have expectations regarding one's experience.

My horse's feet are as swift as rolling thunder He carries me away from all my fears And when the world threatens to fall asunder His mane is there to wipe away my tears.

I think everybody has a right to happiness and freedom and security and health care and education and guitar lessons.

Buoyancy, floating, weightlessness. Freedom. These are the words we use to talk about swimming. Is it a coincidence that this is also the language we use to talk about the lightness of being, the wellness of being, that we strive for in this corporeal world?

How nice it would be to die swimming toward the sun. —Le Corbusier

Swimming is the second most popular recreational activity in America, outranked only by walking. But swimming is the one that quite literally takes us out of our element.

There's a giddiness to being in that water," Kim observes. "It connects with a playfulness that we forget about as adults.

Swimming is a way for us to remember how to play.

Dave Rastovich: "We forget our bodies as we know them and we just . . . swim.

This was a fight not just for the right of access but for the right of recreation, of leisure, no matter what your skin color. Many activists saw pools and beaches as the ultimate symbols of that freedom. In the mingling of bodies, in the act of sharing the same water with others, you can read volumes.

The water is the last place where people cannot text, call or find me," she says with a giggle.

I want to run I want to hide I want to tear down the walls That hold me inside I want to reach out And touch the flame Where the streets have no name

My fear is that I/we have fallen asleep in the comfort of our freedom.