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Quotes About Liberation

Only those who place tomorrow in God's hands and receive what they need to live today are truly secure. Receiving daily liberates us from tomorrow. Thought for tomorrow delivers us up to endless worry.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The first moments of the new day are not the time for our own plans and worries, not even for our zeal to accomplish our own work, but for God's liberating grace, God's sanctifying presence.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Don't follow after the object of hatred, look at the angry mind. Anger liberated by itself as it arises is mirrorlike wisdom. Don't chase after the object of pride, look at the grasping mind. Self-importance liberated as it arises is the wisdom of equanimity. Don't hanker after the object of desire, look at the craving mind.
~ Dilgo Khyentse
Nel sogno c'è sempre qualcosa di assurdo e confuso, non ci si libera mai della vaga sensazione ch'è tutto falso, che un bel momento ci si dovrà svegliare.
~ Dino Buzzati
Though actually kids did not need liberating except from normative training. So it was an anti-colonial project of a sort to defend children from the state.
~ Dionne Brand
Dobby has no master, Dobby is a free elf.
~ Dobby
Don't hate or fear to death because death is the only one who set us free from life's slavery...
~ Dolasankar Sahu
I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
~ Dolly Parton
Satori," ripeté Xue Xin. "Se i nostri pensieri ci imprigionano, è ragionevole che possano anche liberarci.
~ Don Winslow
Fear and guilt are your enemies. If you let go of fear, fear lets go of you. If you release guilt, guilt will release you. How do you do that? By choosing to. It's that simple.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Liberation from every form of exploitation, the possibility of a more human and dignified life, the creation of a new humankind - all pass through this struggle.
~ Gustavo Gutiérrez
I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential. We have to create an art for liberation and for life.
~ Elizabeth Catlett
Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
~ Yves Saint Laurent
Life never gives more than partial liberation. Achievement can never be more than fragmentary.
~ Janusz Korczak
A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.
~ Diane Keaton
The more you try to control something, the more it controls you. Free yourself, and let things take their own natural course.
~ Leon Brown
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.
~ J. Frank Dobie
I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!
~ Gary Paulsen
I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
I am a revolutionary; my life is dedicated to freeing the people.
~ Mengistu Haile Mariam
Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
~ Oswald Chambers
To remain absolutely free is what a true and authentic life is. So never gather any character - remain characterless.
~ Rajneesh
When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.
~ Henri Matisse
Life's better without braces.
~ Bruce Eckel