Quotes About Freedom

I definitely wanted freedom, but I wasn't yet ready to step into it, embody it, breathe it, own it.

All I knew was that I needed to flee as far away as I could from the pressure cooker my life had become. A few days at a local spa would not suffice. My spirit was demanding a complete and total eject, a force powerful enough to propel me five thousand miles across the Atlantic. In fact, this was not a vacation. It was a prison break.

But once you finally take sail in your life, you no longer crave a captain.

I've spent so many years withholding parts of myself, sacrificing my spirit to make others feel comfortable. But now, I'm done with pretending, with living in a prison of my own creation. I'm done with dimming my light.

longed for solitude, for space and breathing room without the thought of how someone else might be impacted. Traveling with others comes with a daily series of negotiations: Is the room temperature okay? What sites should we visit? What time should we have dinner? Can I sit quietly and read while you go out shopping? On and on. By default, I cater. And rather than feeling the need to accommodate, I wanted the beautiful freedom to choose, to please only myself.

don't believe in the word slave because no one chooses to be owned by someone; an enslaved person is a human being whose freedom has been stolen.

Why give up before we try Feel the lows before the highs Clip our wings before we fly away I can't say I came prepared I'm suspended in the air Won't you come be in the sky with me

It has been about realizing that in order for the truth to set me free, I must first be brave enough to birth it.

Liberation for who does not have a shack and freedom for who does not know how to live is fatal.

I'm making a statement about conformity." For or against?" That's for the viewer to decide. I'm an artist, not a preacher." Agnes Phiffer & Osbert Monk in The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn

Now the real beginnings of the 'freedom' which we have discussed for many years--and a heady freedom it is, coming after so many years of reaching outward for it--to finally discover all I had to do was reach inward, and it was there waiting all the time for me

There's a time in your life where you just have to let go, no matter how much you want and need to hold on.

Dan begrijp je maar al te goed waarom je nergens een volwassene ziet rondspringen die zegt: 'Joepie, ik ben een loonslaaf! Wat heb ik toch een pret!' - David (Claire's vader)

She has given me a way out.

Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

I would rather die than stay there." "Well, you might die.

For almost as long as she could remember Maerad had been imprisoned behind walls. She was a slave

At least I won't die a slave," Maerad answered. Proud words, she thought, but she meant them.

Freedom was a fantasy she gnawed obsessively in her few moments of leisure, like an old bone with just a trace of meat, and like all illusions, it left her hungrier than before, only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.

One difference is that for the Dark, certainly, you are a pawn. For the Light, you are a free human being, free to make mistakes, to do wrong, even. You are free to choose, whether or not you believe it." "Funny idea of freedom." "It is the difference between commitment and slavery," Cadvan said. "Between working for what you hope for and believe in the depths of your heart, and what someone else forces you to do.

What difference, being a pawn for the Light or a pawn for the Dark?" "There is a great difference. One difference is that for the Dark, certainly, you are a pawn. For the Light, you are a free human being, free to make mistakes, to do wrong, even. You are free to choose, whether or not you believe it.

I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck

The good thing about living alone is, you can say things out loud without worrying about how crazy they sound.

That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing.