Quotes About Freedom

Such utterly free and gratuitous love is the only love that validates, transforms, and changes us at the deepest levels of consciousness. It is what we all desire and what we were created for. Once you allow it for yourself, you will almost naturally become a conduit of the same for others.

They are comfortable knowing, and they are comfortable not knowing. They can care and not care—without guilt or shame. They can act without success because they have named their fear of failure. They do not need to affirm or deny, judge or ignore. But they are free to do all of them with impunity. A saint is invincible.

It seems we are not that free to be honest, or even aware, because most of our garbage is buried in the unconscious. So, it is absolutely essential that we find a spirituality that reaches to that hidden level. If not, nothing really changes.

We wear the chains we forge in life

She hadn't so much spoken the words as let them out of their cages….

Let us not forget Colby and the liberating effects of higher education. Though it doesn't liberate everyone, does it?

She had always seemed to him to be deep-down wild, the wilder because she harnessed that wildness most of the time.

People for whom summer wasn't a verb.

maybe people did wear chains of their own forging, but often those chains were half complete before they'd added their own first heavy link. Maybe completing other people's work was the business of life.

There was nothing like fear to make democracy real.

you loved. You didn't love them any less, but it was nice not to have to lug them around. And since this was the way of things, why not let nature work in her favor?

To accept life in its disjointed pieces is an adult experience of freedom, but still these pieces must lodge and embed themselves somewhere, hopefully in a place that allows them to grow and endure.

the achievement of human autonomy has been paid for by the experience of human alienation.

The thing to do was to act just like others acted, live like they lived, and while they were not looking, do what you wanted.

Sweep away the clouds And let a dome of blue sky Give this sea a name!

There would have to hover above him, like the stars in a full sky, a vast configuration of images and symbols whose magic and power could lift him up and make him live so intensely that the dread of being black and unequal would be forgotten; that even death would not matter, that it would be a victory

How soon will someone speak the word the resentful millions will understand: the word to be, to act, to live?

Ahead the long rails were glinting in the moonlight, stretching away, away to somewhere, somewhere where he could be a man.

He murdered Mary Dalton accidentally, without thinking, without plan, without conscious motive. But, after he murdered, he accepted the crime. And that's the important thing. It was the first full act of his life; it was the most meaningful, exciting and stirring thing that had ever happened to him. He accepted it because it made him free, gave him the possibility of choice, of action, the opportunity to act and to feel that his actions carried weight.

What quality of will must a Negro possess to live and die with dignity in a country that denied his humanity? There took shape in my mind—

Portugal é o país onde as regras são meras sugestões.

Terror traps us all from time to time, but the important thing is not to let it build walls around us.

Why can't grown-ups just give me stuff, let me do what I like and then go away A LOT?

he lay down in the middle of the field in the sun on his back and closed his eyes, and felt wind, sun, the ground below him...The sun confused him, with its warmth, the brightness. He dozed throughout the rest of the afternoon. His life meant something. he was his own man, belonged to no one.