Quotes About Freedom

Rompe las cadenas de tu pensamiento, y romperás también las cadenas de tu cuerpo

Jonahtan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short,and with these gone from his thought,he lived a long life indeed.

Good-bye, Jon, my friend." "Good-bye, Sully. We'll meet again." And with that, Jonathan held in thought an image of the great gull-flocks on the shore of another time, and he knew with practiced ease that he was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with these gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

I wanted to say, for the love of God, if you want freedom, can't you see it's not anywhere outside of you? Say you have it, and you have it! Act as if it is your's, and it is! Richard, what is so damned hard about that? But they didn't hear, most of them. Miracles - like going to auto races to see the crashes, they came to see miracles. First it's frustrating and then after a while it just gets dull. I have no idea how the other messiahs could stand it

In order to live free and happily,    you must sacrifice       boredom.                    It is not always an easy                       sacrifice

Mine's a free life, but it does get lonely sometimes.

Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too….

Whatever harm I would do to another, I shall do first to myself. As I respect and am kind to myself, so shall I respect and be kind to peers, to elders, to kits. I claim for others the freedom to live as they wish, to think and believe as they will. I claim that freedom for myself. I shall make each choice and live each day to my highest sense of right.

If you love somebody, set them free. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were

Are you saying I can fly?" "I say you are free.

you have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way. It is the Law of the Great Gull, the Law that Is.

whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form.

el secreto es dejar de verse a sí mismo como prisionero de un cuerpo limitado, rompe las cadenas de tu pensamiento y romperás también las de tu cuerpo

Who is more responsible than a gull who finds and follows a meaning, a higher purpose for life? For a thousand years we have scrabbled after fish heads, but now we have a reason to live — to learn, to discover, to be free!

The only true law is that which leads to freedom, Jonathan said. There is no other.

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is," he said, "you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived." The trick, according to Chiang, was for Jonathan to stop seeing himself as trapped inside a limited body that had a forty-two-inch wingspan and performance that could be plotted on a chart. The trick was to know that his true nature lived, as perfect as an unwritten number, everywhere at once across space and time.

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way. It is the law.

Why, Jon, why?" his mother asked. "Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the albatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers!" "I don't mind being bone and feathers, mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know.

YaÅŸamak için ne çok neden var! bal?kç? teknelerinin etraf?nda o rutin, s?k?c? dönüp dolaÅŸmadan baÅŸka nedenler de var yaÅŸamak için. cehaletimizi k?rabiliriz, becerilerimizi, yeteneklerimizi ve zekam?z? kullanarak kendimizi bulabilir, kendimiz olabiliriz. en önemlisi, özgür olabiliriz, uçmay? öÄŸrenebiliriz

Pour pouvoir voler vous devez croire à l'invisible.

Cehaletimizi k?rabiliriz, becerilerimizi, yeteneklerinizi ve zekam?z? kullanarak kendimizi bulabilir, kendimiz olabiliriz. En önemlisi, özgür olabiliriz! Uçmay? öÄŸrenebiliriz!

For Leslie who taught me to fly

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.