Quotes About Freedom

But it's always better to be alone than to be in a relationship that has outlived its purpose. When you're alone, you can live your life on your terms. It will definitely be scary at first, especially if you've never been alone.

We've talked about this," she said matter-of-factly. "I'm on lease. Nobody's purchased me, so therefore no one needs to be 'checking up on me.

Even a first-year law student knows that you can't curtail the right of one person to speak because other people get disorderly.

From cradle to grave, the Religious Right is concerned about every choice you make.

governments and their official representatives will be strictly neutral on matters of religion: not hostile, not promotional, simply neutral.

Liberty does not mean being given state sanction to force your own ideas—religious or otherwise—on other people. It does not mean being given a free pass from laws you don't like.

At first, yes. But a long intimacy frees you of that illusion, and it also acquaints you with their scantiness of character. The effect they have produced on you is only their bluff. There is not such a thing as too much beauty.

being out on bail is good for the ego. It gives you a sense of importance, of being wanted; it makes you feel that people care.

If personal vengeance were the only factor I could, as you suggested, go and stick a knife in him and finish it, but that would be accepting the intolerable doctrine that man's sole responsibility is to his ego. That was the doctrine of Hitler, as it is now of Malenkov and Tito and Franco and Senator McCarthy; masquerading as a basis of freedom, it is the oldest and toughest of the enemies of freedom.

habeas corpus ad subjiciendum.

Freedom is too precious collateral for any fee. We

pluralism implies religious tolerance, not unchecked religious freedom.

You have the freedom to choose to be optimistic or pessimistic. You can peel off your old attitude like a suit of clothes, and put on a brand spanking new attitude every single day. It's as simple as that.

Let go of difficulties from your past, cultural codes, and social beliefs. You are the only one who can create the life you deserve.

Never try to compel others to change; leave them free to change naturally and orderly because they want to; and they will want to when they find that your change was worthwhile. "To inspire in others a desire to change for the better is truly noble; but this you can do only by leaving them alone, and becoming more noble yourself." Christian D. Larson (1874–1954) Mastery of Self

you parrot negative things and squawk about the things you don't love, you are literally jailing yourself, like a parrot in a cage. Every time you talk about what you don't love, you are adding another bar to the cage and you are locking yourself away from all the good.

The only real purpose of being here on this earth is to learn or to re-remember our original natural state of no limitations." Lester Levenson, from Will Power audio

you. If you parrot negative things and squawk about the things you don't love, you are literally jailing yourself, like a parrot in a cage.

Holding on to anger is like

Awareness is greater than every single thing it's aware of. The person is limited, but Awareness is unlimited, which means everything is possible. Nothing can ever restrict you; nothing whatsoever has power over you!

she wouldn't just be getting the time of her life…She'd be getting the ride of her life.

James Whitehorn Honeycutt would simply have to find another way to merge Honeycutt Foods with Reedwater Snacks. Regardless of what her father thought, the merger wasn't worth her freedom, or her happiness. She wasn't some medieval bride to be bartered off like a herd of cattle and a milk goat, for pity's sake. She was a woman who wanted more, who wanted to make her own decisions, her own choices. It saddened

empty chest, because she has nothing to lose.

We should all have personal hot air balloons and drift serenely through the clouds.