Quotes About Freedom

No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.

Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.

The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter.

We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free.

The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.

To Bresson, art is the only possible escape from the bitterness of impotence.

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!

That far land we dream about,Where every man is his own architect.

But little do or can the best of us:That little is achieved through Liberty.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

To live originally is to live authentically, to not be defined by culture or environment, to be truly oneself. We do not want to ignore culture. We live in it; but we need not be defined by it. Living originally, we are in the world but we are not of the world.

For a' that and a' that,It's coming yet, for a' that,That man to man the world o'erShall brothers be for a' that.

Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled,Scots wham Bruce has aften led,Welcome to your gory bedOr to victorie.Now's the day, and now's the hour;See the front o' battle lour!See approach proud Edward's power—Chains and slaverie!

O whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad:Tho' father and mither and a' should gae mad.

For a' that, an' a' that, It's coming yet for a' that, That Man to Man, the world o'er, Shall brothers be for a' that.

We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free.

Here's freedom to him who would read; Here's freedom to him who would write; None ever feared that the truth should be heard, But them that the truth would indict.

If you like not my writing, go read something else.

LEAVING OPTIONS OPEN

To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened.

When you've lived in a cage, you can't bear not to run, even if what you're running towards is an illusion.