Quotes About Freedom

Freedom involves responsibility, and there's a part of most of us that finds responsibility frightening.

I particularly liked this quote from Frankl's book: "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

But part of getting to know yourself is to unknow yourself—to let go of the limiting stories you've told yourself about who you are so that you aren't trapped by them, so you can live your life and not the story you've been telling yourself about your life. But

I particularly liked this line from Frankl's book: "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Children, bound by parental rules, are really free only in one aspect—emotionally. For a while, at least, they can cry or laugh or have tantrums unselfconsciously; they can have big dreams and unedited desires. Like many people my age, I don't feel free because I've lost touch with that emotional freedom.

stimulus and response in order to choose his freedom.

Further, for Rich, love was work and free choice, not a result of fate or destiny.

a person could walk around in a prison of his or her own making and never be behind bars.

I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.

People sometimes imagine that without desire there would be no enjoyment. The opposite is true. When you're caught up in craving, you never really enjoy anything very much because your mind is always pulling you on to the next desire and the next after that. When you let go of desire, then you're free to enjoy whatever is right in front of you.

Was nützt einem ein Vater? Er drängt dich dazu auszufliegen, schubst dich aus dem Nest und rät dir, die Flügel zu benutzen, weil du sonst zu Boden stürzt.

I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!" "Finish your eggs first.

I felt the need to be rebellious. A woman should have a moment in her life when she's rebellious, don't you think?

Really?" Catherine didn't look at all appalled. "What was it like to wear trousers in public?" "Quite . . . liberating, actually." "I daresay, I think we wear far too many layers of clothes." "I agree," both men said at once. Olivia and Catherine giggled like young girls.

A man always has a choice

She could touch him however she wanted, say whatever she wanted. No holding back for fear of censure. No withdrawing for fear of judgment. With him, she could be herself completely and absolutely. Was herself completely and absolutely. Was more than herself as the world fell away. She was herself with him, with this man who accepted her openly, naughtiness and all. Who made her his own.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

There is only one good thing about a small town You know that you want to get out - Songs for Drella

Please don't set me free Death means a lot me

admitting we are not God—not in control, not running anything, not responsible for everyone's well-being, not the solution for everything and everyone, not at the center of all things—doesn't belittle us; it frees us.

If our only motivation for taking down a giant is our freedom, then we won't have all the motivation that's needed. God's glory is also the motivation for us to walk in victory over the giants in our lives.

As we will soon discover, admitting we are not God—not in control, not running anything, not responsible for everyone's well-being, not the solution for everything and everyone, not at the center of all things—doesn't belittle us; it frees us.

Now is the time to walk in the freedom that he has won.

It starts with seeing and believing that whatever giant we're battling might be big—but it's not bigger than Jesus. Nine feet tall is nothing to him. And he intends to set you free.