Quotes About Freedom

Where are you looking at blessing as bondage, something you GET to do as something you've GOT to do?

Vito Paulekas.

When I was a Poet Everything was Possible there wasn't Anything that wasn't Poetry

Fear," said Lobsang. "An instinct that prevents many people from taking actions that they know, deep down inside, would liberate them. Like a bird in a cage whose door has been opened, we are free to go out in search of fulfillment, but fear makes us look for all kinds of reasons not to.

For those beings with a broader perspective of Planet Earth, boredom is sometimes accompanied by a darker companion—guilt. We know that compared to many others, our lives are actually quite comfortable. We don't live in a war zone or in abject poverty; we don't have to dwell in the shadows on account of our gender or religious opinions. We're free to eat, dress, live, and walk however we like, thank you very much. But even so, we're bored beyond measure.

May all beings have happiness and the true causes of happiness; May all beings be free from suffering and the true causes of suffering; May all beings never be parted from the happiness that is without suffering, the great joy of nirvana, liberation; May all beings abide in peace and equanimity, their minds free from attachment and aversion, and free from indifference.

The awesome privilege of being healthy and free to choose how to spend our time.

we are free to go out in search of fulfillment, but fear makes us look for all kinds of reasons not to.

May all beings be free from suffering and the true causes of suffering;

We all need to let go—especially of our preoccupations with ourselves.

a life lived in fear is no life at all.

Suppression is never a permanent fix.

Don't hold on to anything too tightly sooner or later, you'll have to let go.

Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

Imagine staying awake all night not because you're worried about the future but because it's FUN

Of course you should study whatever you want. The written appreciation and understanding of literature, or any kind of artistic endeavour, is absolutely central to a decent society. Why d'you think books are the first things that the fascists burn?

Sympathy for the spinster. I'm perfectly content, thank you. And I refuse to be defined by my boyfriend. Or lack of. Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.

There's a saying, cited in popular song, that if you love someone you must set them free. Well, that's just nonsense. If you love someone, you bind them to you with heavy metal chains.

Your last letter made me laugh so much, Em, but you should still get out of there because while it's good for gags it's definitely bad for your soul. You can't throw years of your life away because it makes a funny anecdote.

the greatest lie that age tells about youth is that it's somehow free of care, worry or fear. Good God, doesn't anyone remember?

that if you love someone you must set them free. Well, that's just nonsense. If you love someone, you bind them to you with heavy metal chains.

and it occurred to me then, just as it does now, that the greatest lie that age tells about youth is that it's somehow free of care, worry or fear.

Wasn't this exactly one of the experiences she craved? Why couldn't she be more spontaneous and reckless?