Quotes About Freedom

And then she fell, from standing, foot-fins together, straight into the wavelets, where she was now seal, and she flung herself down toward the deeper water.

I took that leap, and I was flying

I love traveling, because your escaping into life instead of hiding from it.

I love traveling, because you're escaping into life instead of hiding from it.

If you are a woman and dare to look within yourself, you are a Witch. You make your own rules. You are free and beautiful. You

As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free.

It's not that you have to achieve anything, it's that you have to get away from where you are.

Marguerite Porete

Don't blindly follow any leader.

For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free man (all who try that have proved tiresome), but a technique: I hoped to discover the hinge where our will meets and moves with destiny, and where discipline strengthens, instead of restraining, our nature.

On n'est pas libre tant qu'on désire, qu'on veut, qu'on craint, peut-être tant qu'on vit.

Nailed to the beloved body like a slave to a cross, I have learned some secrets of life which are now dimmed in my memory by the operation of the same law which ordains that the convalescent, once cured, ceases to understand the mysterious truths laid bare by illness, and that the prisoner, set free, forgets his torture, or the conqueror, his triumph passed, forgets his glory.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

I'm going insane. That's the only explanation for any of this. I'm going insane and the men in white coats will be showing up at any moment to tell me this has all been a psychotic delusion. They'll take me away and lock me up, and I'll be free to drool in the corner of my padded cell for the rest of my life without a care in the world. " "But then you'd never see me again," Caleb reminded her with a wink. "Really? Can I get that in writing?

Love is a slippery, unruly thing, and trying to control it robs us of its delicious unpredictability.

You should never stay in a relationship for good closet space.

It is up to us to choose what is right. No one can make us eat a lie," she answers.

Si las mujeres feministas insistieron en el derecho de instruirse, en el derecho de ejercer la razón, en no encontrarse en situación de minus valia ante el monopolio masculino de la cultura, era porque veían con diáfana claridad que no hay libertad sin conocimiento.

Love is so much better when you are not married.

I know everyone has dreams of flying, but this isn't a dream of flying. It's a dream of floating, and the ocean is not water but wind. I call it a dream, but it feels realer than my life.

I feel my strange, beautiful bird in my heart, and the unflooded world all around me.

I would not be eaten, nor beaten, no skewered and swimmer I, no drowned dinner for a circle of cold companions, gobbling my guts, glutted on my gold.

At the end of the day, my natural habitat is in a car and I am happiest in that environment.

Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.