Quotes About Freedom

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Happiness comes from the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

If you ever seem to be sliding back into the very thing you've already been set free of, don't even waste time getting discouraged. Often what seems like the same old thing coming back again may be a new layer surfacing that needs to come off. You're not going backwards—you are going deeper.

Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.

The Soviet performers felt that every note had to be strictly controlled. They had excellent training, but the result lacked freshness and poetry." That word, "freedom," was secretly on the lips of many. In that sense, Van's message became unintentionally political.

Though his rivals at the competition were well trained, there was something different about Van's art. For many in the audience it represented the face of freedom. Performing under the auspices of a repressive regime and before an intimidating jury of some of the world's greatest musicians, he seemed to answer to no authority other than the shifting tides of his own soul. The mere act of hearing him became liberating. When

Must be nice to be a seagull. You eat, you sleep, you shag, and if you're having a bad day you can shite on everyone from a great height. Doesn't even have to be a bad day, you can do it just for fun.

If the Republican Party had been in charge in 1776, we'd all still be celebrating the queen's birthday.

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

You're the only one who can decide what's best for you.

Humans need to be a little crazy, spontaneous, unusual, free-flowing, and creative.

A man? If I need a man, wouldn't you think I'd have one of my own? Must I wait for you?

Most people were raised to think they are not worthy. School is a process of taking beautiful kids who are filled with life and beating them into happy slavery. That's as true of a twenty-five-thousand-dollar-a-year executive as it is for the poorest." Bill Talcott - Organizer

Subhadra Sen Gupta

Give me blood and I will give you freedom

It is not against the law to be a nincompoop. If so, I would have a rap sheet as long as my arm.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

Freedom, he was learning, was not a set point, like the temperature at which water freezes, but something mutable, a moving target.

Una casa es demasiado pequeña, demasiado restrictiva. Quiero el mundo entero, y también las estrellas.

When we become response-able—that is, when we learn to choose our responses freely and consciously—we are free to build a life of continuing growth and increasing happiness.

Lack of forgiveness gives others power over us. Withholding forgiveness simply allows another person to have control over our well-being.

In einem freien Staat müssen Zunge und Meinung frei sein.

I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.