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Quotes About Liberation

Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.
~ E. F. Schumacher
Every time you go to the zoo, you prolong the captivity of the animals there! If no one goes to the zoos, there will be no zoos! Destroying the evil is very simple and it is in your hand!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the same time, project its own image onto history.
~ Sheila Rowbotham
It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time.
~ Stanislav Grof
So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn.
~ Taylor Swift
The awareness of liberation is not liberation. The awareness of time is not liberation.
~ Frederick Lenz
In this frightening, anxious time to be alive it can be liberating to remember that nothing lasts forever. That can focus and invigorate our hopes.
~ John K. Samson
You a low down dog is what's wrong. It's time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.
~ Alice Walker
Il difficile non è raggiungere qualcosa, è liberarsi dalla condizione in cui si è.
~ Marguerite Duras
The price for Jarrod's freedom is to be my imprisonment.
~ Marianne Curley
The miracle of love is expressed through other people. When a beloved is sent from God—and no one can tell you if they are, but the spirit within you—then they do hold the key to your soul's liberation. God has given it to them.
~ Marianne Williamson
Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone, and as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
~ Marianne Williamson
A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part the waters, and to break all chains that bind us.
~ Marianne Williamson
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
~ Marianne Williamson
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
~ Marianne Williamson (Author)
It says Jesus puts His hearer in the role of the father, of the one who forgives. Because if we are, so to speak, the debtor and of course we are that too, that suggests no graciousness in us. And grace is the great gift. The other half is that we also can forgive, restore, and liberate, and therefore we can feel the will of God enacted through us, which is the great restoration of ourselves to ourselves.
~ Marilynne Robinson
I believe it is only prudent to make a very high estimate of human nature, first of all in order to contain the worst impulses of human nature, and then to liberate its best impulses.
~ Marilynne Robinson
And grace is the great gift. So to be forgiven is only half the gift. The other half is that we also can forgive, restore, and liberate, and therefore we can feel the will of God enacted through us, which is the great restoration of ourselves to ourselves.
~ Marilynne Robinson
La eliminación física de la Bestia es bien vista por Dios si con ella se libera a un pueblo.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
I wanted to be an educated, liberated woman. And if the pursuit of knowledge meant getting cancer, so be it.
~ Marjane Satrapi
I read "The Second Sex." Simone explained that if women peed standing up, their perception of life would change. So I tried. It ran lightly down my left leg. It was a little disgusting. Seated, it was much simpler. And as an Iranian woman, before learning to urinate like a man, I needed to learn to become a liberated and emancipated woman.
~ Marjane Satrapi
There were splits within families over the present war, where one son had sided with Saigon and the other with Hanoi. The "liberation" of Hue suspended law and order and upended basic decency, giving retribution an official stamp of approval. It tapped a deep vein of savagery. In
~ Mark Bowden
His efforts were always in the service of releasing people from their fixed ideas about who or what they were, about freeing them from attachment to whatever concept they were clinging to, about loosening the hold that the fear-based ego claimed as its birthright.
~ Mark Epstein
But when we are able to see the extent of our own fears and desires, there is something in us, recognized by both Buddha and Freud, which is able to break free.
~ Mark Epstein