Quotes About Freedom

Try to free a slave with ignorance / Try and teach a whore about romance

Don't let self-imposed, unnecessary restrictions limit your thinking. Whenever you encounter a problem, it is worth spending a minute (or more) asking the question: 'Am I imposing rules that I don't need to? Can I change or bend the rules to my advantage?

I'm happily single.

I've left Bethlehem and I feel free... I've left the girl I was supposed to be and some day I'll be born.

I love them, but sometimes it would have been nice to be able to b e a kid who didn't have to act like an adult so much of the time. - Amber Brown

I love them, but sometimes it would have been nice to be able to b e a kid who didn't have to act like an adult so much of the time. - Polly

We prize "freedom to" so much more than "freedom from.

Abba Poeman] also said, "If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world." The brother asked him what these two things were and he said, "Bodily ease and vainglory."3

One of the lesser-known contributions of the great Harriet Tubman was the devotion of her life after the war to a similar project. The woman who personally led three hundred slaves to freedom, who was a spy and "general" for the Union, spent her final years trying to establish the John Brown Home for the Aged. When the government refused to give her a full veteran's pension, the former general sold fruit and had a biography published to raise money for the institution.

Ernest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian words that meant walled garden. I knew then that he understood how necessary the promises we made to each other were to our happiness. You couldn't have real freedom unless you knew were the walls were and tended to them. We could lean on the walls because they existed; they existed because we leaned on them.

Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.

Whatever they were, they were living their lives, out there doing it, making their mistakes. Somehow I'd gotten stuck along the way […] and I didn't know how to free myself exactly.

You can take a cub from the savannah as they have, and raise it like a pet if you like. In a cage, as some do, or running free like Paddy. You can feed it fresh meat so it never learns to hunt and brush its coat so it carries a human smell wherever it goes—but know that what you've done is twist something natural into something else. And you can never trust on unnatural thing. - Charles Clutterbuck

rnest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian word that meant "walled garden." I knew then that he understood how necessary the promises we made to each other were to our happiness. You couldn't have real freedom unless you knew where the walls were and tended them. We could lean on the walls because they existed; they existed because we leaned on them.

He read aloud to me as I curled next to him, both of our bodies in a warm arc of light. For nearly ten years I'd wanted this…this exactly. Is he really here? I thought. Am I? Denys read on, his voice rising and falling, while a leopard moth that had got caught in the curtains stopped struggling for a moment, and realized it was free.

Strolling, I felt the dark tug at me, and a pleasant itch to be out of my dress, out of my skin even.

I've let you run too wild and you know it," my father said when I went to him, asking to be left alone.

I went out into the open country running fast, just to feel myself do it.

Away in the distance I could see the cloud-softened crags of Mount Kenya and thought of how wonderful it would be to run there, a hundred miles away.

The whip shouldn't have been more than a gnat for Paddy," Bishon Singh told me. "What do you mean?" "What is a whip to a lion? He must have been ready to let you go. Or perhaps you weren't ever meant for him." I

I grew up with the Kips. For them, sex doesn't get all tangled up with guilt or expectations. It's something you do with your body, like hunting." "There are people who'd tell you we're exactly like the animals. Same appetites, same urges. It's a nice idea.

It's freedom you want, then." "Good God, yes. Don't you?" "I don't know. I want to be happy I suppose." "Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.

I have fought for independence here, and freedom too. More and more I find they're not at all the same thing.

Listen, I wanted to say, when you fell in love with me you must also have been in love with my wings. Love them now. Love me. Love me, and let me go.