Quotes About Freedom

When people know the desired destination, they're free to improvise, as needed, in arriving there.

You want to invent new ideas, not new rules.

The Paradox of Choice

After age twenty-five, you're not a victim anymore — you're a volunteer.

Let your co-creation partnership run free in the wild meadow of originality; it will be fenced in the stable of practicality soon enough.

we cannot force ourselves to love—or to withhold it. At best, we can curb our actions. The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

I thought that if lokas existed at all, good women would surely go to one where men were not allowed so that they could be finally free of male demands.

his love was totally different from every other love in my life. Unlike them, it didn't expect me to behave in a certain way. It didn't change into displeasure or anger or even hatred if I didn't comply. It healed me.

And have you come to set me free finally, Govinda?" he asked. "Have I paid sufficiently for my theft?

niente vale quanto essere il padrone di te stesso.

Something had happened as I lay in the field, watching the sky, an understanding that I couldn't control the lives of others—but neither could they control mine.

Anything that makes us forget our true selves is a trap, princess—even something we love or define as beautiful.

Looking down from the heights of Maslow's pyramid, it seems inconceivable to us that someone could actually prefer bread to freedom.

The year is 1947. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times.

I thought that if lokas existed at all, good women would surely go to one where men were not allowed so that they could be finally free of male demands. However, I prudently kept this theory to myself.

But I was like a bird caught in a snare. Only, the wires of this snare were made of curiosity and a disobedient heart.

Priya thinks, The things we give away are no longer ours to control.

I begin the story of the Pleiades, women transformed into birds so swift and bright that no man could snare them.

There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!

Kalau ada yang meraih tanganku melawan kehendakku, bagaimana mungkin itu menjadikan aku miliknya? Akulah yang memutuskan siapa yang memiliki aku." -Panchali

The grandfather dropped his weapons and knelt before him. On his face was a look I could only interpret as hope. "And have you come to set me free finally, Govinda?" he asked.

I'm grateful that we are safe. But it occurs to me that being safe is not very different from being imprisoned.

I've done nothing wrong - nothing except follow my heart. But the world is cruel to women who love.

Perhaps only when one possessed a greater treasure could one let go of this world.