Quotes About Liberation

There is no getting used to pain and suffering. You become only hard-boiled, and you lose a certain capacity to be impressed by feelings. Yet no human being will ever become used to sufferings to such an extent that his heart will cease to cry out that eternal prayer of all human beings: "I hope that my Liberator comes!" He is the master of the world, he who can make his coins out of the hope of slaves.

Does not the American Declaration of Independence talk of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness? If a yogi had written that, he would have said, Life, Happiness, and the Pursuit of Liberty. Sometimes happiness may bring stagnation, but if freedom comes from disciplined happiness, there is the possibility of true liberation.

The embodied soul has two purposes to fulfill: Experience the world, and get liberation from all experiences.

Human birth is the highest. It is for attaining liberation. If we don't consciously try for liberation, then we are misusing our human birth.

Boy, we'll get Raymond out and we won't go hungry anymore.

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.

When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share something with my readers. The whole idea of writing is this place where you lose control, where you're irresponsible - it's a very liberating place.

Reagan was a pure liberation, free-and-fair election American.

You have a real freedom when you don't have to worry about what you look like.

In real life, you don't know what's going to happen to you, so why would your character know? It's liberating to play the emotion your character is feeling at the time and not know what's coming up. I like it.

Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.

I now realise how liberating all-inclusive resorts are. No carrying huge handbags anywhere. No having to worry about purses being pinched. No totting up the price in your head and fretting that you've spent too much.

I broke out of my shell once I graduated from high school and got into college in my first year.

Money grants you freedom, I guess.

I just love that Free the Slaves does such a great job of gathering communities, gathering people together, and giving them the information, arming them, educating them. That's how we're going to change the world.

I'm not a great dancer. I'm a great advertisement for freedom of expression. I don't care what you think. I'm having a great time.

My coming of age was in the '70s. A lot of people look back on it as a grim decade, but I look back on it as a liberating time.

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

Showing true love through forgiveness is liberating and fulfilling. — Bobby Lewis —

You have to realize that, compared with the Korean brand of Confucianism, Christianity is a walk in the park. Compared with what came before, Protestantism is almost a freaking liberation theology.

Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.

Realizing that one does not have to worry about what will happen, that the future is in God's hands, is liberating.

Once you discover freedom, you want to capture it, never let it go.