Quotes About Freedom

As long as you allow your past to haunt you, you'll never be free to pursue your future. You won't even be able to focus on your present.

Stop thinking about the fact that the world has turned against you and the irony is you shouldn't even be here. You should have died sixty years ago. They should have left you in that block of ice. They should have left you as a memory, as a symbol of peace and freedom. Instead of what they're turning you into: a war criminal. A refuregee.

You seize your freedom in a spirit of rebelliousness, exuberance, defiant joy. But to live that choice -- over the weeks and months and years to come -- requires different qualities. It requires that you turn hard, turn rigid. Because it isn't a choice that the world encourages, you have to wear a suit of armor to defend it.

Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do.

No matter how you really feel at the moment or what is happening in your life, resolve to remain cheerful and upbeat. As Viktor Frankl wrote in his bestselling book Man's Search for Meaning, "The last of the human freedoms [is] to choose one's attitude in any given set of cricumstances.

Success is the ability to live your life the way you want to live it, doing what you most enjoy, surrounded by people who you admire and respect.

Whenever you use your willpower and strength of character to return to the values that are most dear to you, you are rewarded with a wonderful feeling of happiness and exhilaration. You feel energized and free. You wonder why you didn't make that decision a long time ago.

15. Technology is a terrible master: Take back your time from enslaving technological addictions. Learn to often turn devices off and leave them off.

Make your life a masterpiece; imaging no limitations on what you can be, have or do.

As Victor Frankl wrote in his best selling book, Logotherapy, "The last great freedom of mankind is the freedom to choose your attitude under any set of external conditions.

One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.

Má»—i khi em th?y bàng hoàng trÆ°á»›c sá»± phai nh?t c?a tình yêu, thì ?o ?nh v? tá»± do l?i tr? nên mãnh li?t. ?o ?nh v? phút giây h?ng kh?i, v? ni?m vui vô t?n khi em c?m nh?n ???c nh?ng Ä'au kh? ???c yêu hay là không yêu n?a…

and on occasion I like to write in pencil, because I need to know that I can erase the words, even if I never do.

the ruin of the South, by the emancipation of her slaves, is not like the ruin of any other people. It is not a mere loss of liberty Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but it is the loss of liberty, property, home, country—everything that makes life worth having."7

Chains...They bind us, whether we want them to or not. But a heart without chains would have nothing to hold it, might simply blow away.

You earthlings! You never know what you want. If you'd stop trying to hold on to everything, you'd be a lot happier.

them the ABCs of meaning. The A is agency—autonomy, freedom, creativity, mastery; the belief that you can impact the world around you. The B is belonging—relationships, community, friends, family; the people that surround and nurture you. The C is cause—a calling, a mission, a direction, a purpose; a transcendent commitment beyond yourself that makes your life worthwhile.

First, creativity thrives on isolation and disconnection. Studies of creativity for two decades have found a consistent pattern: Those facing adversity often suffer from social exclusion, a sense of being ostracized from society, and a feeling of being out of sync or out of touch with those around them. These attitudes, in turn, give these individuals more freedom to take risks, to experiment, to explore means of expression outside the social mainstream.

Freedom is the right to be free, and then the obligation to accept responsibility. If you don't understand that, then ugly stuff happens. And when you do understand that, you're prepared to meet the obligations straight-on.

For centuries, European explorers had set out for new lands without using expressions like pharaoh and promised land, New Covenant and New Israel, Exodus and Moses. By choosing these evocative lyrics, the founders of America introduced the themes of oppression and redemption, anticipation and disenchantment, freedom and law, that would carry through four hundred years of American history. Because of them, the story of Moses became the story of America.

The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments. They burn 'em all away. But they're not punishing you,' he said. 'They're freeing your soul. If your frightened of dying, and your holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. If you've made your peace then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth.

The greatest freedom comes from the greatest strictness.'(Paul Valéry)

I am leaning back and running with it and staring at the stars and I'm eleven, I'm sixteen, I'm eighteen, I'm a newborn I'm everyone everywhere with you without you unbound set free in limbo lost at sea.

I'm everyone everywhere with you without you unbound set free in limbo lost at sea.