Quotes About Freedom

I am not afraid of being alone and single.

I hate being famous. You have no freedom. You can't do anything.

The thing is being honest with yourself. There's no rule that says you have to be married and have kids.

You can live your life being scared of losing someone, and at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you, and that's it.

Street football means you don't fear no one because you have nothing to lose and you are just being yourself.

I'm not afraid of you being yourself. That's America.

I like to play as a No. 10. I think I have more freedom offensively. For Belgium, we have full backs who run hard and create a lot of space, which is good, and I like to play there.

Lincoln believed in the American people.

I'm a strong believer in the NRA.

I'm a real believer in counter-speech when it comes to crazy stuff we don't like.

I had never thought of settling down. I had started believing I was always going to live alone. Marriage was the last thing on my agenda.

I was a feral child. Always on the go. My mother used to sew bells into my dresses so they would know where I was.

I don't belong to anyone.

I just can't belong to a genre, because I don't know what I would want it to be.

Freedom cannot be a responsibility that only belongs to some of us.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

Your time here on this earth, it belongs to you.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence. NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ, I Am That

Si realmente muriésemos, todas nuestras responsabilidades y obligaciones desaparecerían de inmediato. Lo que quedara de ellas se resolvería de algún modo sin nosotros.

These qualities are beautifully encapsulated in the famous statement of Victor Frankl, himself a survivor of Auschwitz (and a neurologist and psychologist): "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." MBSR

At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence.

People don't get it. He didn't even have a fuckin' map; what kind of idiot? THAT was the point. There's no blank spots on the map anymore, anywhere on earth. If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.

But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. -Chris McCandless