Quotes About Freedom

You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it.

When something weighs on your conscience, give it up.

When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.

We're never gonna survive unless we go a little crazy.

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days.

Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.

Open your heart and mind like the wings of a butterfly. See then how high you CAN fly.

Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.

I want to be around these positive, expressive people who are doing something different and who also want to get the hell out of there and don't want to be around basic human bullshit.

Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.

You must choose between your attachments and happiness.

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

Be so positive and optimistic that people give up trying to contain you.

The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.

The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you.

Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty.

Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible.

The goal is to learn to be nurturing with yourself so you can feel free.