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Quotes About Freedom

Mi grito vivo no se le relaja; ciego y exacto lo alcanza en los riscos. Avanza abriendo el matorral espeso y al acercarse ya suelta su espalda, libre lo deja y se apaga en mi puerta. Y ya no hay voz cuando cae a mis brazos porque toda ella quedó consumida, y este silencio es más fuerte que el grito si así nos deja con los rostros blancos.
~ Gabriela Mistral
Bisogna fare la propria vita, come si fa un'opera d'arte. Bisogna che la vita d'un uomo d'intelletto sia opera di lui. La superiorità vera é tutta qui. Bisogna conservare ad ogni costo la libertà, fin nell'ebbrezza. La regola dell'uomo d'intelletto, eccola: - Habere, non haberi.
~ Gabriele d'Annunzio
I am beyond Right and Left, just as I am beyond good and evil… I am a man devoted to life, not to formulas.
~ Gabriele d'Annunzio
Radian. The prisoner's name is Radiana. Who is keeping her prisoner? Time, Stelio. Time is guarding the doors with his scythe and his hour-glass, as in all those old prints...
~ Gabriele d'Annunzio
Ci vuole disciplina per essere uno spirito libero
~ Gabrielle Roth
Compassion is a chameleon: it can wear the face of fear, anger, sadness, joy or even dispassion, depending on what's needed at the time. The compassionate Buddha has a smile in one eye and a tear in the other, and our Buddha mission is to lead people to true freedom, not to hold their hand and tell them that everything is going to be all right. In teaching, compassion means doing whatever needs to be done to get to the next phase.
~ Gabrielle Roth
Attachment guarantees that you will wake up every morning with a mission: to prove you are who you think you are—today. But it's a total energy drain. you're so busy performing a role that you miss out on the freedom to improvise, to be real rather than rehearsed.
~ Gabrielle Roth
Maybe our fear of intimacy is rooted in our fear of the dark, especially the deep dark within, the great unknown. We perceive our inner darkness as a void, an emptiness that fills us with anxiety. We try to stuff this black hole instead of realizing that we are the black hole and that its emptiness is actually a fathomless freedom.
~ Gabrielle Roth
Once your body surrenders to movement, your soul remembers its dance.
~ Gabrielle Roth
Qu'est-ce que tu veux, Florentine, on fait pas comme on veut dans la vie; on fait comme on peut." ... "Moi, je ferai comme je voudrai.
~ Gabrielle Roy
Have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She could remember the sensation of flying through the air, which seemed to last an eternity. She could remember feeling reckless, happy, and doomed, all at the same time. She could remember thinking, I am above gravity.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
If you're always aiming for perfection, you won't make anything at all.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
But honestly, it's best not to think of the mechanics of flight while you're doing it.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Sadie laughed a bit to herself, thinking this was what it was like to play someone else's game: to have the illusion of choice, without actual choice.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
We had so much freedom—creatively, technically. No one was watching us, and we weren't even watching ourselves. What we had was our impossibly high standards, and your completely theoretical conviction that we could make a great game.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The Call of the Wild
~ Gabrielle Zevin
What is feminism from my point of view as a woman and as a human being?" Who fucking cares? you thought. "It's the right every woman has to make her own choices. People don't have to like your choices, Aviva, but you have a right to make them. Embeth Levin has a right to make them, too. Don't expect a parade." You
~ Gabrielle Zevin
What is feminism from my point of view as a woman and as a human being?" Who fucking cares? you thought. "It's the right every woman has to make her own choices. People don't have to like your choices
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Žinau, k? daro žodžiai. Žodžiai išlaisvina jaumus.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Fear like that stays inside you forever if you don't find a way to get rid of it.
~ Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Give me back what should already be mine. Give me the dark, the freedom of the streets, the right to walk wherever I want, unafraid of rape or assault or just being messed with. The stars belong to me as much as you. Move over. Make room on the bench.
~ Gail Caldwell
gregarious hermit. I wanted the warmth of spontaneous connection and the freedom to be left alone.
~ Gail Caldwell
But as much as I complained about my solitude, I also required it. I put a high price on my freedom from obligation, of having to report to no one.
~ Gail Caldwell