Quotes About Freedom

replace it with the word could. Could gives us choice, and we are never wrong.

Est-ce que l'on peut empêcher le printemps de venir, lors même que l'on couperait toutes les forêts du monde ? » - Le Temps Tempête de la Révolution Mondiale

What did falling in love do for you? Can you ever really explain it? It filled empty spaces I never knew were empty. It cured a loneliness I never knew I had. It gave me joy. And freedom. I think that was the most amazing part. I suddenly felt both embraced and freed at the same time.

Life is loss. But out of that, as the book stresses, comes freedom. If we can accept that nothing is permanent, and change is inevitable, if we can adapt, then we're going to be happier people.

What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.

it's not the truth about others that will set you free, but the truth about yourself.

To live in chaos was to live in a prison. Order freed the mind for other things.

But sometimes that comfort was an illusion. Masquerading as protecting, while actually imprisoning.

Happiness as an act of defiance. A revolutionary act.

I saw a lot of men die there. Most men. Do you know what killed them?"…"Despair," said Finney. "They believed themselves to be prisoners. I lived with those men, ate the same maggot-infested food, slept in the same beds, did the same back-breaking work. But they died and I lived. Do you know why?" "You were free." "I was free. Milton was right…the mind is its own place. I was never a prisoner. Not then, not now.

Until the Quiet Revolution gave women back their bodies and Quebeckers back their lives. It invited the church to leave the womb and restrict itself to the altar. It almost worked.

That's a huge one, of course. Most of us are great with change, as long as it was our idea. But change imposed from the outside can send some people into a tailspin. I think Brother Albert hit it on the head. Life is loss. But out of that, as the book stresses, comes freedom. If we can accept that nothing is permanent, and change is inevitable, if we can adapt, then we're going to be happier people.

Everything he let go of had claw marks on it.

A coy smile could capture him, but it was finally a hearty laugh that had freed him.

holding on to resentments only binds you to the person you hate.

Their reasons are their own,' he finally said. 'I don't have to care.

The goal of any healthy society was to keep people safe to express sometimes unpopular views.

After years of investigating murders Chief Inspector Gamache knew one thing about hate. It bound you forever to the person you hated. Murder wasn't committed out of hate, it was done as a terrible act of freedom. To finally rid yourself of the burden.

My favorite quote from Thoreau is also from Walden," said Gamache. "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

She'd taught him that order was freedom. To live in chaos was to live in a prison. Order freed the mind for other things.

Chief Inspector Gamache knew one thing about hate. It bound you forever to the person you hated. Murder wasn't committed out of hate, it was done as a terrible act of freedom. To finally rid yourself of the burden.

With patience comes choice, and with choice comes power.

right. The goal of any healthy society was to keep people safe to express sometimes unpopular views.

To enjoy a freedom they no longer took for granted.