Quotes About Freedom

While the backdrop remained unpainted anything could happen, and let it, Grace thought. Let someone else paint it in, perhaps another Brake Merrowby coming up the long drive in a bright red car, another man who could both entrance and infuriate her, someone else to love her for what she was rather than what she did.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.

Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

we're constantly waking up to what we're about, what we're really doing in our lives. And the fact is, that's painful. But there's no possibility of freedom without this pain.

Instead of trying to freeze the present moment and hang on to it, we need to remember that life is a process of constantly letting go. The ego wants dependable rituals and people who stay the same. But to be free means that we enjoy this touch, this kiss, this sunrise, and then let it go. This is sometimes described as not letting the ground under your feet get too solid, not grasping for security or predictability.

The task for staying unstuck is to stay unattached to the outcome and not look back with regret.

Some of the true signs of being unstuck are friendliness, lightheartedness, receptivity, and joy. It's a friendliness born of aliveness, awe, and fascination. You become able to look kindly into the eyes of others without fear because there's nothing in the way—no shame, judgments, secrets, or agitation. Authentic warmth and friendliness are hallmarks of people who are free in their hearts and in their lives.

Never be within doors when you can rightly be without.

The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding.

like Ariel released from his tree prison, a beautiful human being leaps out of many a human prison at the touch of sympathy .

I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind.

The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.

In exact proportion as women grow independent, educated, wise and free, do they become less submissive to men-made fashions.

Why not? Why not be your own man for once in your life — do what you want to — not what other people want you to?

I've got out at last," said I, "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!

We found a friendly nut-tree, those large, satisfying nuts we already knew so well, and filled our pockets. I see that I have not remarked that these women had pockets in surprising number and variety. They were in all their garments.

Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.

You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the assault weapons of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of people don't like them, but they're protected by the First Amendment — just as assault weapons

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

Jika hati anda bergetar melihat penindasan maka lawanlah sebab diam adalah bentuk penghianatan

This edition of The Motorcycle Diaries, the notes describing a journey made without hesitation, aboard the noisy motorcycle La Poderosa II (which gave out halfway, but only after transmitting to the adventure a joyous impulse we, too, receive), free as the wind, with the sole purpose of getting to know the world, is dedicated to people whose youth is not merely sequential, but wholehearted and spiritual.

Those who kill their own children and discriminate daily against them because of the color of their skin; those who let the murderers of blacks remain free, protecting them, and furthermore punishing the black population because they demand their legitimate rights as free men — how can those who do this consider themselves guardians of freedom?