Quotes About Freedom

Those who will give up essential liberty to secure a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

Louis told himself he only wanted to know if he could get pills. His addiction wasn't broken unless he had a choice to lapse.

It's actually wonderful to see that you're nobody and that all the fear you've had all your life was in relation to this self you thought you had.

It is unintelligent to try to hold on to things, to freeze them, when we can't.

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

I needed to be free to choose not to be free, get me? If someone told me I had to be a slave, 'cause I'm a woman, or 'cause I'm black, I'd fight like hell to be free. I need to know that everything I do is my decision. That's what makes it OK.

Your body will no longer belong to you, she read, voice quavering. Once you are a slave, it is the instrument of your master's pleasure to use as he...as he wishes! Aiden's

Your body will no longer belong to you, she read, voice quavering. Once you are a slave, it is the instrument of your master's pleasure to use as he...as he wishes!

Someone's affection would give someone else freedom.

why people travel far from home-far from where they started. There was, of course, the obvious reason:escape. Escape from the monotony of every day. SO many of us chasing what we wished our everyday existence could be instead. But there was a less obvious and perhaps more important reason. Somewhere, often right in the middle of a trip, you got to believe this was your everyday life. You got to believe you were never going home again.

Be careful what you give up.

I'd want to remember how I had felt sitting here—to take it with me, this sense of relief I knew we were both feeling, the quietly growing momentum that eventually I'd understand comes from letting go of the things you were holding on too tightly to in the first place.

Time to leave the party; Time to reach for me; Time to give me room to breathe.

A load lifted as the day stretches out before him, empty and relaxed.

Maybe freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose." She tilted her head. "Did you really just quote Janis Joplin?

One of the first things, Checking Out taught me was how amazing the beginning of a trip could be. How there was nothing at all like the realization, early in one's travels, that all options are readily available.

Do I have a choice?" she says. "Yes," I say. "Always. With me you always do.

Because it puts it ultimately in our hands, doesn't it? What we choose to live with, and what we choose to live without.

Gertrudis got on her horse and rode away. She wasn't riding alone--she carried her childhood beside her, in the cream fritters she had enclosed in a jar in her saddlebag

A Tita le encantaría ser una simple semilla, no tener que dar cuentas a nadie de lo que se estaba gestando en su interior, y poder mostrarle al mundo su vientre germinado sin exponerse al rechazo de la sociedad. Las semillas no tenían este tipo de problemas, sobre todo, no tenían madre a la que temer, ni miedo a que las enjuiciaran.

A Tita le encantaría ser una simple semilla, no tener que dar cuentas a nadie de lo que se estaba gestando en su interior, y poder demostrarle al mundo su viente germinado sin exponerse al rechazo de la sociedad

Porque no quiero». Tita con estas tres palabras había dado el primer paso hacia la libertad. Mientras

podemos sacar provecho de los beneficios que nos brinda la ficción para sanar nuestras emociones, para escribir nuestra nueva historia con toda libertad

Que baile, que ría, que nada le impida galopar hasta la locura, que los ladridos de los perros no detengan su andar, que nunca tenga que elegir entre amar o vivir.