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Quotes About Freedom

I like to control my own personal life.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.
~ Maya Angelou
If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life.
~ Charley Reese
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
~ Salman Rushdie
The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.
~ Scott Jurek
Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at my most.
~ Sharon Jones
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
~ William James
I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!
~ Gary Paulsen
I was looking for the key for years But the door was always open
~ Aravind Adiga
You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.
~ Dr. Seuss
once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.
~ Mae West
No one can be free unless he is independent.
~ Maria Montessori
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
~ Walt Whitman
Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.
~ Melody Beattie
I am a revolutionary; my life is dedicated to freeing the people.
~ Mengistu Haile Mariam
Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.
~ Nelson Mandela
True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.
~ Nikolai Berdyaev
Freedom is control in your own life.
~ Willie Nelson
We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.
~ Lana Del Rey
It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
~ Tyler Perry
The life and simple beauty of it is too good to pass up
~ Christopher McCandless
If one person comes in and says, this is the way life should be, I think you're asking for chaos. I think you gotta let different people live different ways. It's a big world.
~ Ice T
DNCE is "dance without the a." It's not a perfect word, and you don't always have to be a perfect dancer to dance. Life is just sometimes not perfect.
~ Joe Jonas