Quotes About Freedom

I'll be dead, I'll not care either way. What matters is how I die.' 'And how will that be?' 'Fighting for freedom and the lives of my companions, bana-madam.

The test is in leaving the castle,' said the Supreme Grand Master. 'To give up all that came before and begin again with nothing.

La liberté, c'est le minotaure en dehors des murs.

If you hold on to the handle, she said, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.

For a long time she flew, only when she thought no one else was watching.

The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same"-

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

I spent a long time trying to find my center until I looked closely at it one night & found it had wheels and moved easily in the slightest breeze. So now I spend less time sitting and more time sailing.

I have too much to lose, she said, if I cross that line. Like what? I said. She could not think of anything that day so she said she'd get back to me. Since then I've been thinking what I would lose if I cross my line & I haven't come up with anything either. There's always another line somewhere.

Songs to Herself: She waved at all the people on the trains & later, when she saw they didn't wave back, she started singing songs to herself & it went that way the whole day & she couldn't remember having a better time in her life.

She waved at all the people on the train & later, when she saw they didn't wave back, she started singing songs to herself & it went that way the whole day & she couldn't remember having a better time in her life.

He is self-conscious because everyone knows he has wings but they've never seen him fly. Now & then there will be a feather in odd places or maybe a footprint to show he was there. All in all, he thinks it's nobody else's business what he does with his free time.

Today, she decided to be suitably ambiguous, so you can think whatever you like about her. (Amount of time scheduled for the opinions of others: ZERO) —Suitably Ambiguous

She left pieces of her life behind her everywhere she went. It's easier to feel the sunlight without them, she said.

There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house. What does it mean? I asked. A pirate needs the sight of the sea, he said and then he pulled his eye patch down and turned and sailed away.

Art cannot be limited by temporal aberations

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

Of course there's another choice, he thought. There is always another choice. I'm just not going to take it.

The only prison we can never escape is our brain, and yet our brain is what sets us free.

Emzara was the most submissive of women. She knew Elohim created woman out of man's side to be his ezer, a helper beside him. But sometimes that meant speaking the truth that was hard for one's beloved to hear. "My love, pride leads to a fall. It is faith that leads to freedom.

a truth about human society: not everyone wanted freedom. When a people willingly or unwillingly become wards of their rulers, they eventually lose their capacity for self-determination. Like helpless children, they actually prefer security in exchange for their freedom. Better the misery they know while being taken care of than the misery they do not know being freely accountable for their own actions.

as he read through the Levitical laws, he received a vision of Yahweh's holiness so pure and intense, it was like a blinding light that pierced his soul. Israel was a royal priesthood of Yahweh's perfection. And he understood again that Yahweh's laws were not restrictive, but freeing. They were the boundaries for experiencing the best that the creator offered to humanity.

We have lived as slaves most of our lives. We do not know how to make choices

Only in the boundaries of a loving Creator can humanity be free. Is a fish out of the water free? Is a bird out of the sky free? Only in fulfilling our god-given purpose can mankind experience the liberty of obedience. Disobedience is not enlightenment, it is pure blindness; it is not freedom, it is slavery.