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Quotes About Freedom

og forresten er vel alle og enhver ulykkelig på sin egen måte, og det skulle jeg tro de har rett til!
~ Tove Jansson
How nice to be on your own for a bit and do what you like.
~ Tove Jansson
Seules la passion et la joie peuvent être honnêtes. Rien de ce qu'on m'a forcée à faire n'a jamais apporté de joie. Ni à moi ni à ceux qui m'entourent.
~ Tove Jansson
A contract," Katri went on earnestly. "A contract is really much more remarkable than you might think. It doesn't just bind. I've noticed that for some people it's a relief to live with a contract. It frees them from indecision and confusion, they no longer have to choose. Both sides have agreed to share and assume responsibilities. It is, or ought to be, a deliberate promise where people have at least tried to be fair.
~ Tove Jansson
All his life Snufkin had longed to pull down notices that asked him not to do things he liked to do.
~ Tove Jansson
And I was sitting on my verandah believing they were so remarkable and free, just because they never spoke a word and were always on the move. They hadn't a single word to say and nowhere to go...
~ Tove Jansson
I'm going to sleep outside. I don't want a bed. Beds are stupid.
~ Tove Jansson
Najednou se muminka zmocnila taková radost, že se musel odebrat do samoty. Okdrá?el pomalu ke k?lnÄ›. A když ho nikdo nevidÄ›l, dal se do bÄ›hu. B?žel v roztálém snÄ›hu, slunce se mu opíralo do zad a on b?žel a b?žel, protože byl šťastný a na nic nemyslel.
~ Tove Jansson
Jag var betagen av en ny slags avskildhet som inte alls vara isolering, bara att få vara utanför, och inget ont samvete för nånting alls. Jag vet inte hur det gick till men allting blev enkelt och jag lät mig bara vara glad.
~ Tove Jansson
Jag var betagen av en ny slags avskildhet som inte alls var isolering, bara att få vara utanför, och inget ont samvete för nånting alls. Jag vet inte hur det gick till men allting blev enkelt och jag lät mig bara vara glad.
~ Tove Jansson
The very last house stood all by itself under a dark green wall of fir-trees, and here the wild country really began. Snufkin walked faster and faster straight into the forst. Then the door of the last house opened a chink and a very old voice cried: 'Where are you off to?' 'I don't know,' Snufkin replied. The door shut again and Snufkin entered his forest, with a hundred miles of silence ahead of him.
~ Tove Jansson
You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody else too much, I know.
~ Tove Jansson
Who's he going to outwit?" Sophia asked. "Relatives." Grandmother said. "Nasty relatives. They tell him what to do without asking him what he wants, and so there's nothing at all he really does want.
~ Tove Jansson
Of course you have to feel free. Naturally you must go away. I do understand that you have to be alone sometimes. (Moomintroll to Snufkin)
~ Tove Jansson
I very nearly wished that I had been born a Hatti-fattener under the Hattifatteners' vague and drifting stars, and that no one expected anything else of me than that I also should be drifting along toward an unattainable horizon, never speaking to anyone and never mindful to anything.
~ Tove Jansson
een spannende gedachte begon vorm te krijgen; de mogelijkheid om alleen te zijn, helemaal in je eentje, in alle rust en vol verwachting, bijna een soort dwaasheid die je je kunt permitteren wanneer je gezegend bent let liefde.
~ Tove Jansson
Ifall det är någon som inte vet vad pensionerad betyder så är det att man får göra precis vad man har lust till i frid och ro när man har blivit tillräckligt gammal. Åtminstone hade hemulens släktingar förklarat det så.
~ Tove Jansson
You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.
~ Tove Jansson
But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now, I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase.
~ Tove Jansson
When Paul went to prison, I cried at first. Not for Paul but for me. Then I started to behave strangely. Wild. Restless.
~ Tracey Emin
The plan is: there is no plan.
~ Unknown
Was Frank right that she needed to experience what normal felt like? Or would she always be the princess in the tower who could never find the stairs?
~ Unknown
Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to be had in it.
~ Tracie Peterson
Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to be
~ Tracie Peterson