Quotes About Freedom

If your mind isn't cluttered by unnecessary things, this could be the best day of your life." —

There is only one rule on this Wild Playground. . . . 'Have fun, my dear; my dear, have fun.'" — HAFIZ, PERSIAN POET

Oh my, how the world still dearly loves a cage." —TESS LYNCH, WRITER, GENTLEWOMAN, AND ESSAYIST

2.   The great field of potentiality is unlimited. Absolutely anything is possible. All it takes is the willingness to open your mind, surrender "old-school" conditioning, and continue to expand into more joyful, freer, bigger ideas.

Sometimes I'm afraid the main reason I spend half of my life outdoors is simply because there aren't any mirrors.

freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Freedom is where you find it," my father often said when I complained. Papa had a way of seeing the world exactly as he wanted. "The greatest prison is in our mind.

Estamos juntos solo porque queremos; es una relación que no está basada ni en un pasado común ni en promesas de futuro que quizá no podamos cumplir. La parte de mí que tal vez habría deseado algo más de un hombre murió el día que me fui de Berlín.

The price of fighting for freedom meant acknowledging they might be killed at any moment

No one bestowed courage or freedom or self-determination - one simply decided to take it.

And I'll do what I damned well please.

Forget you are a man. Loose the animal you hide inside.

There are so few years to just be a child.

Letting children "live their lives" isn't about releasing them into the wild or abandoning them (though French school trips do feel a bit like that to me). It's about acknowledging that children aren't repositories for their parents' ambitions or projects for their parents to perfect. They are separate and capable, with their own tastes, pleasures, and experiences of the world. They even have their own secrets.

You are not anyone's opinion of you. You are whoever you choose to be.

I've got to get you home before I lose all my sanity and give in to the urge to imprison you here as a sex slave for my evil desires." Jesse sighed heavily. "That does sound tempting, but I'm pretty sure that Aunt Will would miss me." "She probably would," Piney agreed. "And how could I explain to my son why I've got a woman locked up in my bedroom?

Everything inside her rebelled at the coercion. But he was giving her a choice, and he didn't have to.

She'd thought binding would enslave her. Instead, for the first time in her life, she felt whole. Tighe watched her with moisture in his own eyes. He kissed her, and the sweetness, the passion, exploded inside her a hundred times more brilliant than before as if she'd been living life in two dimensions, two black-and-white dimensions, and through this ritual, he'd lifted her into a stunning new existence.

What did parents in the seventies do when kids were bored in the back? Nothing! They let them suck in gas fumes. Torture their siblings. And since it wasn't actually used for wearing, play with the seatbelt. If at any point you complained about being bored at home, you were really asking for it. "Go outside," your parents would roar, or worse, "Clean your room.

Back in the days of Sugar Pops and roller skates, grown-ups had no clue where their kids were, who they were with, or what the hell they were up to, and that suited kids just fine.

I now believe in growing old gratefully, not gracefully. I haven't found the secret to life, or love, or eternal youth. But I do know now that youth is not the blossom but the bud, and that though one cannot always be young and wild, if you are willing to learn, to grow, to outrun the mileposts of your own wildest dreams, you can always be winsome and lucky, lovely and free.

freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

You can't hold on, Zoe. Not to hate. Not even to love. You kill things that way. There's only one freedom. Forgiveness. And sometimes the hardest thing to do is to forgive yourself.

There are never any rules, rights, or wrongs in imagining--- imagining just is.