Quotes About Freedom

The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.

My life is as good as an Abba song. It's as good as Dancing Queen.

Ultimately, it's not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people's expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

To be baptized means to make the passage with the people of Israel and with Jesus from slavery to freedom and from death to new life. It is a commitment to a life in and through Jesus.

The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.

We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.

Some people are going to be happy (with my decision). Some people aren't. But I must live my life.

Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.

Spontaneity. Freedom. The opportunity for unstudied, impulsive roving through the backlands of his mind. Which are most detrimental? Inhibition. Self-censorship. Restraint.

And honored among foxes and pheasants by the gay houseUnder the new-made clouds and happy as the heart was long,In the sun born over and over,I ran my heedless ways.

I sang in my chains like the sea

Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

Thousands of miles,' I said. It's Rhosilli, USA. We're going to camp on a bit of rock that wobbles in the winds.

Reaching a self freedom is the only object.

Speak, then, o body, shout aloud, And break my only mind from chains To go where ploughing's ended.

When you have no hope, you have nothing to fear, nothing to be ashamed of, and nothing to lose.

In the beginning, our one-pointed focus on our goal of personal freedom is necessary; however, if carried to extremes, it can also lead to a kind of narrow-mindedness and sense of claustrophobia.

Buddhism is primarily a study of mind and a system for training the mind. It is spiritual in nature, not religious. Its goal is self-knowledge, not salvation; freedom, not heaven. It relies on reason and analysis, contemplation and meditation, to transform knowledge about something into knowledge that surpasses understanding. But without your curiosity and questions, there is no path, no journey to be taken, even if you adopt all the forms of the tradition.

it looks dualistic, but it has that ability to liberate you from the bondage of dualism.

Now, he was free to go forth and make a name for himself in this wide, wide world. And maybe, just maybe, he'd come back one day, and burn that fucking palace to the ground.

"My name is Margalo," said the bird, softly, in a musical voice. "I come from fields once tall with wheat, from pastures deep in fern and thistle; I come from vales of meadowsweet, and I love to whistle."

I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.