Quotes About Freedom

Let's begin with Level Flight. . . .

Cuando me siento inspirado y feliz, los versos son infinitos, porque entonces la rima no es importante.

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Ohne Bedenken brach er das Versprechen, das er sich selbst gegeben hatte. Derlei Schwüre gelten nur für Möwen, die mit dem Mittelmaß zufrieden sind. Wer einmal das Außerordentliche erfahren hat, kann sich nicht mehr an die Normen des Durchschnitts binden.

Cuando sepan, pensó, lo del Descubrimiento, se pondrán locos de alegría [...] Podremos alzarnos sobre nuestra ignorancia, podremos descubrirnos como criaturas de perfección, inteligencia y habilidad. ¡Podremos ser libres! ¡Podremos aprender a volar!

Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's a reason to life! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly!

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

Flock, but it was Jonathan's voice raised. "Irresponsibility? My brothers!" he cried. "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! Give me one chance, let me show you what I've found . . . 

for your limitations,    and sure enough,          they're       yours.

Why is it, Jonathan puzzled, that the hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird that he is free, and that he can prove it for himself if he'd just spend a little time practicing? Why should that be so hard?

You don't need me any longer. You need to keep finding yourself, a little more each day, that real, unlimited Fletcher Seagull. He's your instructor. You need to understand him and to practice him.

To begin with," he said heavily, "you've got to understand that a seagull is an unlimited idea of freedom, an image of the Great Gull, and your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, is nothing more than your thought itself.

It wasn't long before Jonathan Gull was off by himself again, far out at sea, hungry, happy, learning.

No importa quién sea usted ni la edad que tenga ni dónde viva; si lo desea, volará. Parece extraño, pero es así.

Everything that limits us we have to put aside

I allow the world to live as it chooses, and I allow me to live as I choose.

Juan gaviota pasó el resto de sus días solo, pero voló mucho más allá de los lejanos acantilados.

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Ä°lk günah 'içinizdeki as?l sizi' s?nrlamakt?r. Yapmay?n.

Huey Long once said, "Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism.

Huey Long once said, "Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism." I'm afraid, based on my own experience that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.863

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.

This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ? next stop China. The coyote was acting like he was in New Mexico or Wyoming, except that there were whales passing below. That's what this country does for you. Come down to Big Sur and let your soul have some room to get outside its marrow.