Quotes About Freedom

I am like a prisoner who is trying to escape from jail by the wrong route. For all one knows, that door may stand open, although I continue to dig a tunnel with a teaspoon.

Oh, how wonderful and rich and strange life can be when you stop playing out the roles that your parents and their friends wrote out for you.

This is being written abord the S.S. Augustus, three days at sea. My suitcase is full of peanut butter, and I am a fugitive from the suburbs of all large cities.

Among the rewards of his expatriation were a heightened awareness of what he saw and an exhilarating sense of freedom. Mixed with the love we hold for our native country is the fact that it is the place where we were raised, and, should anything have gone wrong in this process, we will be reminded of this fault, by the scene of the crime, until the day we die.

I felt that he was a captive of financial and sentimental commitments, like every other man I know, and that he was no more free to fall in love with a strange woman he saw on a street corner than he was to take a walking trip through French Guiana or to recommence his life in Chicago under an assumed name.

I think this view misses the essential point of running away, which is to do it the moment the idea has occurred to you. Only an obsessional procrastinator would cry, "Let's run for our lives, but not till Wednesday afternoon.

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

We live in a nation where governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.

We cannot beg someone to stay if they want to leave. We have to admit that LOVE doesn't give us the license to own a person.

I dont know why we all hang on to something we know were better off letting go.

I saved a bunch of money on Valentines Day by switching to...single.

When breaking up with my boyfriend, he told me "you'll never find anyone like me ever!" I thought to myself I should hope not. Youre the kind I want to get rid of."

When your ex says, 'You will never find anyone like me.' Reply with, 'That's the point!'

Message to my ex: thanks for everything, now I am more stronger than before & now I don't need you. I can walk on my own.

Thank god she is somebody elses problem now!

The best way to get over your ex-love is to simply move on.

It's truly amazing what you can accomplish in a day when you aren't constantly worried about what everyone else in the world thinks.

You will never agree to spend another moment with worried thoughts and feelings once you realize that they don't care about you at all!

Stop caring what other people think. How? Understand that this is your life, not theirs, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself if things don't work out the way you'd hoped...their opinion shouldn't matter more than your own.

Don't expect me to chase you anymore 'cause I'm going through that phase where I'm starting to learn how to let you go.

Accept me as I am, or watch me as I go, you choose the second option so dont cry for me anymore.

One day, I will be strong enough to leave you, and this time I won't come back.

I gave you more chances then I should have so now I'm finally walking away.

To let go of someone doesn't mean you have to stop loving, it only means that you allow that person to find his own happiness without expecting him to come back.