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Quotes About Freedom

Freedom is instantaneous the moment we accept things as they are.
~ Karen Maezen Miller
It's not so bad to find yourself free of the effort to overcome your life. It's not so bad.
~ Karen Maezen Miller
mortals who wish to gather it must first release a black hen which the Devil will not be able to resist chasing,
~ Karen Maitland
Life's a choice: you can live in black and white, or you can live in colour. I'll take every shade of the rainbow and the gazillion in between!
~ Karen Marie Moning
There are only two things to worry about in life: either you're free or you're not. If you're free, there's nothing to worry about. If you're not, you kick the shit out of everything around you until you are.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Temptation isn't a sin that you triumph over once, completely and then you're free. Temptation slips into bed with you each night and helps you say your prayers. It wakes you in the morning with a friendly cup of coffee, and knows exactly how you take it.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Nightwindflyhighfreeeeeee.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Friends don't build cages for each other.
~ Karen Marie Moning
A woman who's lived in a cage all her life. And hates it. Bored in there, aren't you. Waiting for life to happen. And when it finally does, it steals from you what you loved most. So take back. Explode. Lash out. Blow up
~ Karen Marie Moning
Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style, park your own car out front.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Love doesn't build cages. It builds stairways to the stars.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Naught will be done to you that you doona wish done. Dageus MacKeltar
~ Karen Marie Moning
So what's the big picture about our lust for sex? We're not trying to acquire something. We want to feel something: Alive. Electrically, intensely, blazingly alive. Good. Bad. Pleasure. Pain. Bring it on--all of it. For people who live small, I guess enough of that can be found in sex. But for those of us who live large, the most alive we ever feel is when we're punching air with a fist, uncurling our middle finger with a cool smile, and flipping Death the big old bird.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Karen Marie Moning
~ Easy, wild thing.
People had to want to stay, choose to be with you, or it meant nothing. There were physical cages and there were emotional ones. Holding onto someone too tightly made it hard for them to breathe, and eventually, inevitably, they'd do one of two things: suffocate or run, leaving you feeling like hell either way.
~ Karen Marie Moning
It occured to me that adaptability was more than survivability; it was the foundation of love. We were all changing, every day, and those relationships that endured were the ones that rode the waves together, grew and allowed each other to evolve. Encouraged it, even when it was frightening. Adaptability in relationships was the polar opposite of a cage. It was necessary commitment wed to necessary freedom.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Sometimes the things we think will set us free Ã¢â'¬Â¦ only make more chains. You either wear them or break them, and I Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, I don't want to wear them.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Fear of the power you believe someone or something has over you is nothing but a jail cell you choose to walk into.
~ Karen Marie Moning
giving her a chance to fly." "They're my wings." "It's her sky. You were made, not born. It's Dani's life.
~ Karen Marie Moning
When anything is possible, how do you choose?
~ Karen Marie Moning
Cages were funny things. Although I'd escaped with my body long ago, only recently had my heart finally broken free. Healed by the love of a man who'd been willing to sacrifice everything, even give me up if he had to, just to see me rise.
~ Karen Marie Moning
No man wants to sleep with a woman. He wants to fuck her. And nobody forces me to do shit.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I welcome her feral nature.
~ Karen Marie Moning