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Quotes About Liberation

I came to see I was not just alone; I was free. Free of him. Free to be. So many women's lives are hindered, hampered, and ruined by husbands who will not leave long after they have ceased to be husbands or fathers. Dead wearing a hat, these men actively and energetically visit untold woe on those they once had loved. I was not thus afflicted I saw.
~ Sindiwe Magona
Whatever decision you make, let it be the one that will set your mind free.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
La moraleja de todo esto es que la extraña relajación fomenta el placer y que la relajación es un estado de apertura casi completo ante cualquier cosa que pueda sobrevenir. También supone irreflexión. Empecé a preguntarme si existirían personas que viviesen la mayor parte del tiempo sin ataduras, sin pensar, dejándose llevar.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.
~ Maya Angelou
The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
~ Gary Zukav
You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah
~ Francine Rivers
Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
~ Jeanne Moreau
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
~ Maya Angelou
I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I'm a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time. -- Stargirl
~ Jerry Spinelli
My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, "I love you. I care for you, enormously." And when I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.
~ Desmond Tutu
Yet it is only love which sets us free.
~ Maya Angelou
I'd love to be in a 1910s film - the era between the corsets and losing the corsets.
~ Vanessa Paradis
It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper.
~ Ian Mcewan
You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.
~ Rumi
I just love my age. I really do. I feel like once I hit 40, I felt free to be me.
~ Anne Alexander
My body is no longer his temple.
~ Max Allan Collins
She decided to sleep with him and get it over with. It was the only way. He had become an annoying jingle, striking in the shower, or at work, or just as she was falling asleep. She had to at least kiss him deeply and completely, in a way that left nothing behind. So she could move on. So she could stop imagining it. She couldn't keep losing herself to the jingle. It was impairing her ability to function.
~ Max Barry
was like…a dam breaking; the taboo was shattered, and the truth just started flooding out. It was…liberating.
~ Max Brooks
The most liberating of all thoughts is disregard or "disconcern" for what other people think. Famous mail-order impresario and entrepreneur J. Peterman wrote (in his autobiography Peterman Rides Again); "Once you realize that most people are keeping up appearances and putting on a show, their approval becomes less important." Excessive concern over what other people think inhibits personality more than any other factor.
~ Maxwell Maltz
Everything in us presses toward decision, even toward the wrong decision, just to be free of the anxiety that precedes any big step in life.
~ May Sarton
For only the ill are well, Only the hunted, free
~ May Sarton
one of the privileges of old age was that no holds were barred. You were permitted to be absolutely honest.
~ May Sarton