Quotes About Freedom

i have struggled but i have worked to make my struggles meaningful and now i am set free.

All these explanations, and more, had been offered to Arthur. He could choose from among them whichever he liked, like drawing a card from a deck.

What a relief, that laughter! What a blessed release.

path of descent becomes our own liberation. We are freed from the exhausting stance of defense. We are no longer compelled to be right and are thus relieved from the burden of maintaining some reputation. We are released from the idols of greed, control, and status. The pressure to protect the house of cards is alleviated when we take the lowest place.

It can be a site of reverie or rebellion; a form of propaganda or an idiosyncratic way of responding to the world: its openness to what it can be is one of its – if not its greatest – sources of power. It can be a response to anything and made anywhere by anyone: it can give permission to the silenced to speak or create a lexicon for the illiterate; it can lend the world shape and make it graspable to those who feel that it is out of reach.

That's the funny thing about trying to escape. You never really can. Maybe temporarily, but not completely.

I smiled half a smile at her puppy antics, wondering what it would be like to be able to join her, to shed my human skin and the confines that went with it and just live in the moment as a wolf. What would I look like with four legs and fur—would I be light-colored like Katie, or a darker timber, like Dev? I wondered if I would be velvet black with ice-blue eyes, like Chase.

I'd sold my soul to get out of detention.

What fun is it playing by other people's rules?

Better is being my friend and my partner and realizing that you don't get to make decisions for me. Better is the way you make me see myself as a person who's capable of anything. I would jump out of a plane with you, Jameson, snowboard down the side of a volcano with you, bet everything that I have on you - on us, against the world. You don't get to run off and take risks and expect me to stay behind in a gilded cage of your making. That isn't who you are, and it's not what I want.

Nothing has to matter unless you let it.

Nothing has to matter," Grayson replied tightly, "unless you let it.

It doesn't have to be anything other than what it is. No messy feelings. No obligations. No promises. No expectations.

She was tough enough to chop a hole in the ice and swim in January, so it was hard to think of her being trapped by her own mind.

Gary had grown up in a small town in Idaho and said it was kid heaven—there was room to breathe, to explore, you knew your neighbors, and your parents didn't mind if you were out late because bad things never happened there. You were safe.

White space. Blank canvas. Intimidating, but thrilling beyond belief. Anything can happen. When was the last time her art mattered?

have the keys to my prison in my own hand, and no remedy presents itself so soon to my heart as mine own sword.

We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty. For him one is not permitted to "renounce his personality," and while he states living as a duty, it also conveys a kind of freedom: we are not burdened with the obligation of judging whether our personality is worth maintaining, whether our life is worth living. Because living it is a duty, we are performing a good moral act just by persevering.

I draw from the absurd three consequences. Which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion.

Drive anywhere and everywhere, even when there's nowhere to go. (Note: There's always somewhere to go.)

The last wandering

For a minute, I can feel it: the sense of peace as my mind goes quiet, like I'm already dead. I am weightless and free. Nothing and no one to fear, not even myself.

Theodore Finch, April 3. "Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!

My beloved boat is broken on the rocks of daily life. I've paid my debts and no longer need to count pains I've suffered at the hands of others. The misfortunes and the insults. Good luck to those who remain.