Quotes About Freedom

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.

The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.

eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.

It's miserable living someone else's life, and it is downright suffocating to live beneath your potential.

Israel's wandering in the wilderness wasn't just because [God] was angry with them. His continuous moving with them in the wilderness was because He wanted time to get out of them what their years of being slaves had put in them. And the best way to show anyone who you really are is to constantly be in their presence.

Under standing orders from General Lee, the Army of Northern Virginia enslaved any and all black persons it could seize—in Virginia, Maryland, even Pennsylvania during the Gettysburg Campaign. It made no distinctions between those who had escaped during the war, those born free, or those freed before the war under the laws of Southern states. If they were black, the men in gray took them as property.

Let go whatever burdens your soul and questions your peace of mind

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

You are only a prisoner when you surrender.

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.

I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.

Ever been in Jail? No. But I'm often alone.

Polak, jak da? mu wolno??, to wszystkich przeskoczy. Polak, jak musi czeka?, to wpada w z?o??. Polak, jak my?li, to zawsze senny. Polak, jak ponarzeka, zaraz zdrowszy. Polak, jak przyjdzie wieczór, to zaraz wspomina. Polak, jak widzi balkon, to chce skaka?. Polak, jak wpadnie w sza? to biada, ?lepej i gnu?nej Europie. Polka, jak zechce rzuci miliardera.

I am free. I am one of the few free people in this country of utterly transparent slavery. A slavery covered by a sloppy coat of contemporary varnish. I have fought a long and bloodless battle for this pitiable personal freedom. I fought for my freedom against the temptations, ambitions, and appetites witch drive everyone blindly on the slaughterhouse. To the so-called modern slaughterhouse for human dignity, honor, and for something else, too, which we forgot about a long time ago.

W?a?ciwie wszystko mi jedno. Jestem wolnym cz?owiekiem, który zawis? wysoko nad miastem i z oddali z ?agodnym zdumieniem przygl?da si? dziwnym ludziom oraz ich dziwnym poczynaniom.

I am free, anonymous man. My flights and falls occurred while I was wearing a magical cap of of invisibility, my successes and sins sailed on in invisible corvettes, and films and books flew off into the abyss in invisible strongboxes. I am free, anonymous.

Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

Stupidity is not a crime. You're free to go.

New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice.