Quotes About Freedom

There comes a time when the only way to start living is to tell the truth. To be who you really are, even if it is dangerous.

In your mind, change the name of every day to Saturday. And change the name of work to play.

The most powerful moment in life is when you decide not to be scared anymore.

Words don't capture, they release.

I couldn't believe it. I had broken the law simply by not wearing clothes.

If we demand the future be free from suffering in order to be happy; we can't be happy.

There was an old musician's cliché, about how there were no wrong notes on a piano.

The hardest dream of all is the dream of not being tormented by our unlived dreams. To cope with and accept unfulfillment as a natural human condition. To be complete in our incompleteness. To be free from the shackles of memory, and ambition, to be free from comparison to other people and other hypothetical selves, and to meet the moment without any other agenda, to exist as freely as time itself.

I unclip the lead from Abraham's collar and he stays by my side and looks up at me, confused, as if perplexed by the concept of freedom. I relate.

It looks like she is standing still but actually she is walking. She is breaking out of the chains of the past. Of slavery. Of civil war. And she is heading towards liberty. But she is caught for ever in that moment of stopped time. Look, can you see? Stop looking at the torch and look at her feet. She's moving, but not moving. Heading towards a better future, but not quite there yet.

The way out of your mind is via the world.

Yes, there had been a void inside me, but voids were underrated. Voids were empty of love but also pain. Emptiness was not without its advantages. You could move around in emptiness.

No is a good word. It keeps you sane. In an age of overload, no is really yes. It is yes to having the space you need to live.

in a world trying to increasingly isolate us from our environment and our true selves, books are our route to freedom, and to each other'.

I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it. I am no longer drowning in my past, or fearful of my future. How can I be? The future is you.

the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.

Anxiety,' Kierkegaard wrote, in the middle of the nineteenth century, 'is the dizziness of freedom.

People are craving not just physical space but the space to be mentally free. A space from unwanted distracted thoughts that clutter our heads like pop-up advertising of the mind in an already frantic world. And that space is still there to be found. It's just that we can't rely on it. We have to consciously seek it out.

Happiness occurs when you for get who you're expected to be. And what you're expected to do. Happiness is an accident of self acceptance. It's the warm breeze you feel when you open the door to who you are.

You always have a choice. Life is full of choices

Don't do the work people expect you to do. Do the work you want to do. You only get one life. It's always best to live it as yourself.

Is there no way out of the mind?" Sylvia Plath

In those moments that burst alive the present lasts for ever, and I know there are many more presents to live. I understand. I understand you can be free. I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it.

Nothing makes you feel smaller, more trivial, than such a vast transformation inside your own mind while the world carries on, oblivious. Yet nothing is more freeing. To accept your smallness in the world.