Quotes About Freedom

Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too. . . . 

the forces of rulers and ritual slowly, slowly will kill our freedom to live as we choose.

Each of us is in truth an idea of the Great Gull, an unlimited idea of freedom," Jonathan would say in the evenings on the beach, "and precision flying is a step toward expressing our real nature. Everything that limits us we have to put aside. That's why all this high-speed practice, and low-speed, and aerobatics …

Ed era l'ora, sì di andare a casa. Abbracciò con un ultimo sguardo il suo cielo, i magnifici campi del cielo, dove aveva imparato molte cose. «Sono pronto» disse alfine. E il gabbiano Jonathan Livingston fece prua verso l'alto, scortato da quei due splendidi uccelli, e scomparvero insieme nella notte.

In the days that followed, Jonathan saw that there was as much to learn about flight in this place as there had been in the life behind him. But with a difference. Here were gulls who thought as he thought. For each of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do, and that was to fly. They were magnificent birds, all of them, and they spent hour after hour every day practicing flight, testing advanced aeronautics.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

always free            to change your mind and                choose a different future, or                  a different                      past.

Per gyvenim? tave veda tavyje esanti, ištroškusi mokymosi, žaisminga dvasin? b?tyb?, kuri ir yra tavo asmenyb?s esm?. Nenusigr?žk nuo jokios galimos ateities prieš tai ne?sitikin?s, kad iš jos n?ra ko išmokti. Tu visuomet gali laisvai apsispr?sti. Gali persigalvoti ir pasirinkti kitoki? ateit? arba kitoki? praeit?.

for the love of God, if you want freedom and joy so much, can't you see it's not anywhere outside of you? Say you have it, and you have it! Act as if it's yours, and it is!

Desde cuándo la seguridad ha sido tu ambición, Dickie? Huir de lo seguro: esa es la única manera de lograr que tu última palabra sea «¡Sí!»

En doÄŸru yasa bizi özgürlüÄŸe götürecek oland?r.

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.

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

We are all. Free. To do. What- ever. We want. To do.

ÖzgürlüÄŸünü yitirdikten sonra, yitirecek baÅŸka neyin kal?yor ki?

Gece vakti bir mart?n?n yeri k?y?d?r ve Jonathan o andan itibaren s?radan bir mart? olmaya and içti.

En yüksekten uçan mart? en uza?? görendir

Qué hacemos en el aire? Podríamos decir que practicando lo que significa estar vivo.

No podrías matar aunque trataras, porque la vida es indestructible. Pero eres libre de creer en la muerte, si insistes».

No cualquier hombre (permítanme una restricción y cierto romanticismo) es capaz de volar, sino aquel que siente que volar es su vida, que sabe que el cielo no es un lugar de trabajo o de diversión, sino que es su casa.

True, the same young Jonathan Seagull was there that had always lived behind his golden eyes, but the outer form had changed. It felt like a seagull body, but already it flew far better than his old one had ever flown.

Chiang spoke slowly and watched the younger gull ever so carefully. "To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is," he said, "you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

No soy más Mesías que vosotros. El río se complace en alcanzarnos, con la condición de que nos atrevamos a soltarnos. Nuestra verdadera terea es éste viaje, ésta aventura.

Is there a rule that a messiah can't write what he thinks is true, the things that have been fun for him, that work for him? And then maybe if people don't like what he says, instead of shooting him they can burn his words, hit the ashes with a stick? And if they do like it, they can read the words another time, or write them on a regrigerator door, or play with whatever ideas make sense to them? Is there something wrong with writing?