Quotes About Freedom

Love was trapping me here.

I do not like wearing clothes," I said, with quite delicate precision. "They chafe. They are uncomfortable around my genitals." And then, remembering all I had learned from Cosmopolitan magazine, I leaned in toward them and added what I thought would be the clincher. "They may seriously hinder my chances of achieving a tantric full-body orgasm.

Room Imagine forgiving yourself completely. The goals you didn't reach. The mistakes you made. Instead of locking those flaws inside to define and repeat yourself, imagine letting your past float through your present and away like air through a window, freshening a room. Imagine that.

As Nora escaped the shop, she wished there were nothing but doors ahead of her, which she could walk through one by one, leaving everything behind.

What if there was never a way? What if I am . . . trapped?' 'So long as there are still books on the shelves, you are never trapped. Every book is a potential escape.' 'I just don't understand life,' sulked Nora. 'You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it.

Free will might be overrated. 'Anxiety,' Kierkegaard wrote, in the middle of the nineteenth century, 'is the dizziness of freedom.

She imagined seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature. Just another sentient animal, trying their best. And in doing so, she imagined what it was like to be free.

She said that, precisely. Try on. As if this was a clothes shop and Nora could choose a life as easily as a T-shirt.

And she didn't want to live any other life than the one that was hers.

The prison wasn't the place, but the perspective

So long as there are still books on the shelves, you are never trapped. Every book is a potential escape.' 'I just don't understand life,' sulked Nora. 'You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it.

While fear might want us to imagine the worst is certain, the future—like everything else—remains uncertain, unpredictable, open, free.

It looks like she is standing still but actually she is walking. She is breaking out of the chains of the past.

that the prison wasn´t the place, but the perspective.

It was a quote from Henry David Thoreau. All good things are wild and free.

most people don't want to be free. Because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

If we keep going in a straight line we'll get out of here.

To be is to let go

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.

Think of all that possibility. It's exciting.' 'Yes. I suppose it is.' 'A whole life in front of you.' 'A whole life.' 'You could do anything, live anywhere. Somewhere a bit less cold and wet.

I've ridden a bike now for a hundred years and I think they are one of the truly great human inventions.

quote from Henry David Thoreau. All good things are wild and free.

To the winter forest And nowhere to go This girl runs From all she knows

imagined seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature. Just another sentient animal, trying their best. And in doing so, she imagined what it was like to be free.