Quotes About Freedom

The vast power of money, mighty when you have it and even mightier when you don't, with its divine gift of freedom and the demonic fury it unleashes on those forced to do without it—

Una de las misteriosas leyes de la vida es que descubrimos siempre tarde sus auténticos y más esenciales valores: la juventud, cuando desaparece; la salud, tan pronto como nos abandona, y la libertad, esa esencia preciosísima de nuestra alma, sólo cuando está a punto de sernos arrebatada o ya nos ha sido arrebatada.

Vivre et laisser vivre », disait la célèbre maxime viennoise

Que a la larga no se puede defender la libertad de las masas, sino únicamente la propia, la libertad interior.

Y esta búsqueda y este esfuerzo por la pureza de espíritu, por la salvaguarda de la libertad en una época de servilismo generalizado a ideologías y facciones, lo convierte hoy en nuestro hermano y contemporáneo.

No envy is more mean than that of small-minded beings when they see a neighbour lifted, as though borne aloft by angels, out of the dull drudgery of their common existence; petty spirits are more ready to forgive a prince the most fabulous wealth rather than a fellow-sufferer beneath the same yoke the smallest degree of freedom.

Aquí quiere vivir por sí misma, sin estorbos; no ser otra cosa sino la mujer joven, desmesuradamente adulada y adorada, que, en medio de mil superfluas ocupaciones, se olvida de todo, del reino, del esposo, de la corte, del tiempo, y a veces -y éstos son acaso sus minutos más dichosos- hasta de sí misma. Con Trianón, este espíritu desocupado ha encontrado por fin una ocupación, un juego, que se renueva constantemente.

O femeie este cu atît mai nobil? È™i mai cinstit? cu cît urmeaz?, liber?, sentimentul ei sincer, îndelung încercat – È™i o regin? este cu atît mai regal?, cu cît se poart? cît mai omeneÈ™te.

We certainly did—I do not deny it—have immeasurably more individual freedom, and we did not just welcome that, we made use of it. But as Friedrich Hebbel once nicely put it, "Sometimes we have no wine, sometimes we have no goblet." Both are seldom granted to one and the same generation; if morality allows a man freedom, the state tries to remould him. If the state allows him freedom, morality will try to impose itself.

Alle volkeren voelen nu dat er een vreemde schaduw breed en zwaar boven hun leven hangt. Maar wij, die nog de wereld van de individuele vrijheid hebben gekend, wij weten en kunnen getuigen dat Europa zich ooit zorgeloos verheugde in zijn caleidoscopische kleurenspel. En wij gruwen als wij zien hoe vol schaduwen, duister, vol slavernij en kerkers onze wereld dankzij zijn suïcidale razernij geworden is.

Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

Wer einmal sich selbst gefunden, kann nichts auf dieser Welt mehr verlieren.

That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.

L'arte è questo: scappare dalla normalità che ti vuole mangiare.

It is so easy to be wild and let love rip; poets get such easy kudos.

And you shall find upon the beach The traces of my dancing

She did, now, want to escape. She had a lot to do; to get on with... there was so much, enjoyably much, to be done.

not that I ought to grumble. I have money of my own, a luxurious home in excruciating taste, and all the clothes I want. All that is lacking is liberty, an aim to work for, and the conviction that my life is worth living. I am a most fortunate young woman.

Climbing, simply and joyfully, is the way I love the world.

I just wanted to fly, for that one weightless minute of time streaking through the sky. It felt like nothing I'd ever experienced.

implications of gnosis: What makes us free is the gnosis of who we were of what we have become of where we were of wherein we have been cast of whereto we are hastening of what we are being freed of what birth really is of what rebirth really is. (Excerpta de Theodoto)

As in mindfulness practice, each moment of practicing awakened awareness offers a choice-point: Do I allow myself to become distracted and get seduced back into the drama? Or do I choose the openness, clarity, disidentification, and freedom that I discovered but keep forgetting?

As in mindfulness practice, each moment of practicing awakened awareness offers s choice-point: Do I allow myself to become distracted and get seduced back into the drama? Or do I choose the openness, clarity, disidentification, and freedom that I discovered but keep forgetting?