Quotes About Freedom

a royal bride could come to enjoy considerable power and influence, as did both Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. Yet such status and power emanated solely from her husband. She enjoyed no freedoms but those he permitted her. Without him, she was nothing. Queens

These are sad times, when people cannot follow their own consciences, but God knows the secrets of our hearts. It is through our faith alone that we will be justified. One day, I pray, we will have the freedom to worship openly.

I would rather a simple ploughman could read it and make up his own mind than see the Church continue to manipulate the Bible to its own ends.

people who have no hold over their process of thinking ara likely to be ruined by liberty of thought.

As soon as Sam pops the trunk, more balloons fly up into the air.

To quit successfully, you need to focus on what the cigarette is doing for you. Once you understand you're not making a sacrifice, you're well on your way to freedom.

SUMMARY • Nicotine is the addictive poison which hooks you. It's the No.1 killer. • Smokers go on smoking despite all the obvious disadvantages because they're in a trap. • Nicotine addiction is what keeps smokers smoking. It's a disease. • You are not in control of your smoking. The cigarette controls you. CHAPTER 2

Living with an alcohol problem is just like living with an abusive partner. It leaves you physically battered, destroys your confidence and self-esteem, yet makes you feel perversely dependent on your abuser. The only difference is that you can walk out on drink any time you like and no one will try to stop you.

I would like you to pause for a moment, and to record your own feelings about smoking: what you think it does for you, why you smoke and why you want to

I know that heroin will do absolutely nothing for me and that I neither need nor want it, and I don't have to keep telling myself that.

Being a smoker can never get better, only worse.

Knowledge is not necessarily enough to beat the nicotine trap.

unravel the brainwashing and follow your instincts.

Todas las razones para dejar de fumar, hacen que sea más difícil dejarlo por otras dos razones. Primero mero, porque provocan una sensación de sacrificio. Siempre pensamos que nos están obligando a sacrificar a nuestro pequeño amigo, o apoyo, o vicio, o placer, o como quieras llamarlo

Smoking creates an artificial feeling of insecurity and emptiness.

Allen Carr saved my life.

We very quickly start to feel cleansed, but the Little Monster is demanding its fix. If we're using the wrong method, we interpret these cries as "I want a joint," and although we might hold out to begin with, eventually the Big Monster will have its way and we find ourselves back in the trap.

Of all the basic human values, surely freedom is the most basic and most important? Who could conceive of anything as stupid as giving away this priceless gift in order to be enslaved to a drug that doesn't even get you high?

You do not need to smoke. It's the last thing you need to do; make sure it isn't the last thing you do.

Smokers suffer the empty insecure feeling of nicotine withdrawal their entire smoking lives. Nonsmokers never suffer it

Whenever you find yourself in a situation where you would have written a cheque or handed over your credit card, instead of feeling like you're somehow missing out, think, 'Isn't this marvellous! I don't have to incur any new debts.

HOW the ADDICTION STARTS • ALARM BELLS • THAT EMPTY FEELING • ONE CIGARETTE LEADS TO ANOTHER • RE-PROGRAMMING YOUR BRAIN • THE KEY TO ESCAPE

kill the Big Monster first. You unravel the brainwashing and see alcohol for what it really is: an addictive poison that controls and debilitates those who take it. Then the Little Monster is easy to deal with. In fact, you can enjoy the process, confident in the knowledge that you're destroying a mortal enemy.

what we are 'enjoying' when we smoke after a period of abstinence is not the cigarette, but ending the state of wanting or needing it.