Quotes About Freedom

There is no percentage in rebelling just for the sake of rebelling, but there are great rewards in being your own person and living your life according to your own standards.

you get it by letting go.

Maya Angelou once observed, "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

free your mind from its persistent nagging.

The truth, as I see it, is that everything you think, say, and do is a choice—and you don't need to think, speak, or act as you've done for your entire life. When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses. Right now, while reading this book

To be in harmony with the Tao is to be free of goals, immersed in all that you're doing without concern about the outcome—just noticing in each moment and allowing yourself to flow with the creative Source that's energizing everything and everyone in the universe.

Of birds I know that they have wings to fly with, of fish that they have fins to swim with, of wild beasts that they have feet to run with. For feet there are traps

Lembre-se de que a vingança é apenas uma outra maneira de ser controlado pelos outros. Faça o que você, não eles, decidir que deve fazer.

live more spontaneously—you don't need to neatly wrap up each detail of your life.

Begin to view your emotional life as independent of whatever anyone else does. This will free you from the chains of being hurt when others behave differently from the way you want them to.

It's also important that you live more spontaneously—you don't need to neatly wrap up each detail of your life.

Even if you are deliberately avoiding dominant people (parent, spouse, boss, child), you are still being controlled by them in their absence if you are experiencing emotional immobilization because of them.

Change the way you choose to perceive the power that others have over you and you will see a bright new world of unlimited potential for yourself.

If I don't have a story, I won't have to live up to it.

You must learn to assume responsibility for the circumstances of your life without any accompanying guilt.

Love is a word that has as many definitions as there are people to define it. Try this one on for size. The ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you. This may be a workable definition, but the fact remains that so few are able to adopt it for themselves.

allow rather than interfere.

No pedir nada de nadie te da un auténtico sentimiento de libertad.

move freely, unencumbered with thoughts about where you should be and how you should be acting.

The next time you are contemplating a decision in which you are debating whether or not to take charge of yourself, to make your own choice, ask yourself an important question, How long am I going to be dead? With that eternal perspective, you can now make your own choice and leave the worrying, the fears, the question of whether you can afford it and the guilt to those who are going to be alive forever.

consciously free your mind from attempting to control the events of your life.

When you live in the now, you allow yourself the freedom to enjoy a moment, rather than postponing that gratification or joy because you've got something more pressing to do.

Know that if you're living out of a sense of obligation instead of choice, you are a slave.

True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.