Quotes About Freedom

If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.

There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight--how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.

An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.

I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours if they don't they never were.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".

You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Then you can blame it on your parents,' I said, smiling. 'Won't that be a relief?

None of us really has anything to lose. That makes it easier to give away.

ONE OF THE MAIN focuses in my work has been discovering ways to help people achieve what I call "personal freedom". Personal freedom means having the freedom to be able to control your thoughts and to manifest the kinds of feelings you want in your life.

When you practice using your brain in this way, you will find yourself feeling really good a lot more often. Achieving personal freedom is all about developing new mental habits and skills and getting used to mentally running your brain the way you choose to run it.

Once they have a choice, people always make the best choice. The trouble is that people don't think they have one.

If you've been afraid most of your life, you may not have good examples of what "happy" is. In that case, you can build it in. That's what I do. You have to give people a really strong feeling of being relaxed, a really strong feeling of feeling good as a guide for their behavior. You do this so that, in the future when they wake up, they start asking, How much fun can I have today? How much freedom can I find? How much more can I do than I've done before?

Freedom in the Bible is a broad and complex notion ... It embraces freedoms FROM (exploitation, for example), freedoms OF (choice, for example), freedoms FOR (service to others, for example), freedoms TO (hope, for example).

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

We can use the same model for pedestrians. The rules will be similar, in that movement will be dictated by the space available, but there is more freedom of movement because, unlike cars, which have defined lanes and tend not to push around and over one another, people in a crowd are less constrained. That is why you can have crushing stampedes emerge from pedestrian congestion while cars patiently wait in line.

Writing is the place where I can be as bold and compassionate and wise as I choose.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

Whatever your goal is you will never succeed unless you let go of your fears and fly.

We owe our freedom to extraordinary people,' he told the assembled crowd. 'The bad, the evil, doesn't have the last word. It is ultimately goodness and laughter and joy and caring and compassion.