Quotes About Freedom

Reject labels. Reject identities. Reject conformity. Reject convention. Reject definitions. Reject names.

Our imaginations are in thrall to the institutions of oppression.

La estampa del viajero en motocicleta es siempre la de un jinete de paso con la que los críos sueñan.

Por fin era yo haciendo de yo y mirando con mis ojos la carretera, los árboles, la puesta de sol. Respiré aliviado. Volvía a reconocerme. Pensé en que yo siempre había usado la motocicleta para alejarme del grupo, para ser individuo.

I don't want to be the person who gasps in fear whenever she hears the sound of a doorbell or a phone. I just want to lose myself in these hills, in the river winding west to the city of bridges.

Think about your story in a new way,' the wise person says. 'You've been thinking of it as a loss. Now think of it as a liberation. What happened to you--it actually freed you up. And it didn't just free you up any old way. It freed you from some dead weight of the past so you could find a new home that would bring life to some part of you, maybe the best part of you.

It was always to free up some part of themselves that never would've come to light. Now they could burst free. And this part of themselves that was freed pointed directly toward where they would feel at home in the world.

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

This magnificent refuge is inside you. Enter. Shatter the darkness that shrouds the doorway. Step around the poisonous vipers that slither at your feet, attempting to throw you off your course. Be bold. Be humble. Put away the incense and forget the incantations they taught you. Ask no permission from the authorities. Slip away. Close your eyes and follow your breath to the still place that leads to the invisible path that leads you home.

We would much rather be undefined than ordained in traditions that don't fit our curves.

I would always be earthbound; he hadn't robbed me of my ability to fly or to live forever. I appreciated nuns now, not the conscripted kind, but modern women who chose it. If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

Then Potato ran by. He was a little brown dog, just like the woman said. He tore past me like he was about to miss a plane. He was gone by the time I even realized it had to be Potato. But he looked joyful, and I thought: Good for him. Live the dream, Potato.

But I knew jumping was like dying, I would have to let go of everything.

A jeweler could meditate by envisioning that everything is as pure and radiant as shimmering gold; a winemaker might picture herself as distilling bliss from the grapes of experience; a shoemaker could imagine that he was sewing the leather of passion with the thread of freedom to produce shoes of enlightenment.

Tr?im într-o puÈ™c?rie fermec?toare, nu mai puÈ›in magic? decât orice ne putem închipui.

Asta n-o vor înÈ›elege ei niciodat?: c? nu eÈ™ti dator s? ajungi ceva, c? nu trebuie s? parvii nic?ieri, c? ceea ce import? în primul rând este s? fii tu È™i s? poÈ›i r?mâne tu însuÈ›i în orice împrejurare a vieÈ›ii.

As a dam is breached and water escapes..

He who reaches them without having done wrong Will exist there like a god. Free-striding like the lords forever!

Butterflies add another dimension to the garden, for they are like dream flowers - childhood dreams - which have broken loose from their stalks and escaped into the sunshine.

Dan wanted me to stay. I wanted Elf to stay. Everyone in the whole world was fighting with somebody to stay. When Richard Bach wrote "If you love someone, set them free" he can't have been directing his advice at human beings.

Although a poem arises when there's nothing else to be done, although a poem is a last attempt at order when one can't stand the disorder any longer, although poets are most needed when freedom, vitamin C, communications, laws and hypertension therapy are also most needed, although to be an artist is to fail and art is fidelity to failure, as Samuel Beckett says, a poem is not one of the last but of the first things of man.

On, narode, sve?e, mu?eni?e! Zašto putuješ u tre?oj klasi? I zašto uop?e putuješ? Zaustavi vlak! Okreni ga da te vozi kamo ti ho?eš. A ne kamo on ho?e. Skreni ga sa kolosijeka - nek' te vozi k sre?i! Što se mu?iš i patiš?

Christ has not come with a blueprint for political arrangements; many kinds of political arrangements are compatible with the Christian faith, from monarchy to democracy. But in a pluralistic context, Christ's command "in everything do to others as you would have them do to you" (Matt. 7:12) entails that Christians grant to other religious communities the same religious and political freedoms that they claim for themselves.

Anyone with any sense welcomes retirement,