Quotes About Freedom

I want to lie down in the grass on the sidewalk and I want to run and keep running.

Every time you open this you get free. Freeness up in here and nobody even have to know you get free but you.

I goin' call her Lilith. You can call her what they call her.

I admire that a woman can do people like a man. You just get up one day and gone. No drums, no pigeons, no note, no word, no nothing.

I dream of hiking into my old age.

There is nothing as wonderful as the emotional freedom found in Jesus.

Gaining freedom a little bit at a time is a biblical principle.

Prior to full freedom, expect God to prompt you to take preventative precautions. He is, after all, your loving parent who does not want you to suffer unnecessarily.

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

All universal moral principles are idle fantasies.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

Like a true nature's childWe were born, born to be wildWe can climb so highI never wanna die

What have we all, we who have nothing left but longing to be free of our lashed satiety.

With a book in your hand...you can go anywhere you want

Indeed, sir, I would be more than willing to do whatever I can to speed my mistress and myself away from this accursed country and away from the likes of you." She looked Alex directly in the eye. "You, sir, ride with death on your shoulder, and it does not make for pleasant company.

Wisdom and freedom require the ability to allow the natural flow of emotions to come and go, experiencing emotions but not being controlled by emotions. Always having to prevent or suppress emotions is a form of being controlled by emotions.

When we are free, we can look in the face of our cravings and desires and say "I don't have to satisfy you.

Acceptance is the freedom from needing your cravings satisfied.

He loved me, Mama. He just didn't know how things fall down around me like they do. I think he did the right thing. He gave himself another chance, that's all.....I was trying to say it's all right that Cecil left. It was...a relief in a way. I never was what he wanted to see, so it was better when he wasn't looking at me all the time.

Don't do anything that isn't play!

mythologist Joseph Campbell suggested, "'What will they think of me?' must be put aside for bliss.

the dangers of a language that implies absence of choice

We were not meant to succumb to the dictates of should and have to, whether they come from outside or inside of ourselves. And if we do yield and submit to these demands, our actions arise from an energy that is devoid of life-giving joy.

When we use language which denies choice (for example, words such as should, have to, ought, must, can't, supposed to, etc.), our behaviors arise out of a vague sense of guilt, duty, or obligation.