Quotes About Freedom

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.

I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

Whenever other worlds invite us, whenever we are balancing on the boundaries of our limited human condition, that's where life starts, that's where you start feeling yourself living.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.

There is nothing better in life than sliding down snow before flying through the air.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.

Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.

I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.

Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

If there is one thing I've learned in my short life, it's this: Never repress anything.

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.