Quotes About Freedom

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

By learning to let go and to allow the world and fellow human beings to be who and what they truly are, a disciple frees her or himself to love—to the death.

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free.

It's not always wrong to quit. We should never hold onto a mistake just because we spent a lot of time making it.

Deep in our hearts everyone walks free.

It is that to which we cling that drags us to the bottom of the abyss. There is real power at having nothing to lose.

We chain ourselves to those we don't forgive.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

We chain ourselves to those we don't forgive.

Forgiveness is release — to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free. To not forgive is to chain oneself to people and circumstances of the past. In doing so, our past becomes our future.

Expression requires freedom. It seems to me that no matter what you say in this world, someone will be offended.

Regret is a useless emotion.

We can't let crazy people dictate our lives.

The greatest shackles we bear in this life are those forged by our own fears.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.

I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.

What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.

Richard Reeves

Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun.

Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable.

The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.