Quotes About Freedom

I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to ... I found that I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way-- things I had no words for.

I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do—isn't it enough just to express yourself.

Another convenience is the speed limit. There is none.

Humans for the most part are unwary victims of the degree to which they have been controlled while at the same time purported to have freedom but in fact it is basically an illusion.

Here in Corfu,' said Theodore, his eyes twinkling with pride, 'anything can happen.

the glitter and wink of the trapped fish inside it.

I visualized myself walking proudly through the olive groves, preceded by the dogs, Ulysses, and my two magpies, and trotting at my heels, four tame hedgehogs, all of which I would have taught to do tricks.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

Love, then, is letting go of fear.

rise to a higher level of freedom. We are not being called to run away from danger but toward safety.

We can perform service to others for a variety of reasons. We can do good deeds because of fear, guilt, or the desire to inflate our egos. But if we really want to be loving, if we truly wish to respond to the call of justice and freedom, we must first have the courage to look into our own emptiness. We must somehow even come to love it.

Hope can sometimes be an elusive thing, and occasionally it must come to us with pain. But it is there, irrevocably. Like freedom, hope is a child of grace, and grace cannot be stopped. I refer once more to Saint Paul, a man who, I am convinced, understood addiction: "Hope will not be denied, because God's love has been poured into our hearts.

Grace empowers us to choose rightly in what seem to be the most choiceless of situations, but it does not, and will not, determine that choice.8 For

Regardless of when and how it happens, the dark night of the soul is the transition from bondage to freedom in prayer and in every other aspect of life.

Grace is the most powerful force in the universe. It can transcend repression, addiction, and every other internal or external power that seeks to oppress the freedom of the human heart. Grace is where our hope lies. Journey

The bare edge of freedom is insured and preserved inside us by God, and no matter what forces oppress us from without or within, it is indestructible.19

Heaven is to be in God at last made free. —Evelyn Underhill1

Love is letting go of fear.

I withdrew a small card from the pouch. The front of it was filled with lines of elegant, hand-lettered script. "What does it say?" Dad asked, leaning forward. "The Four Remembers of Life," I read. "Number one: Remember, you are unique. Number two: Remember, there is purpose to your life. Number three: Remember you are free to choose what you are and what you become. And number four: Remember, you are not alone.

Paul Adams stood up quickly. "We have not lost, Bryce," he whispered fiercely. "Not so long as the desire for freedom burns in the heart of one person. We have not lost!

the real question isn't whether it's bombs versus muskets or wagons versus automobiles. It still comes down to more basic thins like people's right to life, to liberty, and to peacefully enjoy the fruits of their labor.

Our long national nightmare is over.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.