Quotes About Freedom

Happiness lies in your own hand

America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.

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

Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

Laughter is taken as a sign of strength, freedom, health, beauty, youth, and happiness.

Freedom is the real foundation of happiness.

Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future.

My personal belief is that the only thing keeping you from freedom is all the beliefs you have about what has to happen before you can be there.

One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.

We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

Choice is illusion, same as happiness and freedom.

Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.

[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.

Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men.

Being naturally happy is the most impressive sign of freedom.

Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists.

When you open your mind, you let happiness in.

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...

Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.

I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live.

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451