Quotes About Freedom

My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.

Don't get too caught up in making money or having a job, get excited about the fact that you can design your life.

In a lot of ways, it was a huge relief, not being a member of a troupe, being able to make your own decisions and kind of live your own life.

I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.

I did, I'd say, at least about 80 percent of the rest of the driving, and I had the time of my life.

When you let go of the need for any and all outcomes life becomes a creative magical adventure.

From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.

Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity Do Justice Learn from the World Community Nurture People Cherish the Natural Order Non-Conform Freely.

My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world.

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

Our life is our own creation.

Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.

Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.

I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your own mind, and that is a profoundly rare human privilege.

My reasons to live Were my reasons to die But at least they were mine Now I've freedom unbound Cut the laces of life

Life already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden?

Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow-- Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.

... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.

To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.

I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.

I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.