Quotes About Liberation

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'

The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.

I just have so much fun playing bad girl roles. Getting to say things that in life you would never ordinarily say, there's something really liberating about that. It's fun.

The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern. I dubbed it, 'The church of freedom from concern,' or 'FFC.

In a lot of ways, it was a huge relief, not being a member of a troupe, being able to make your own decisions and kind of live your own life.

My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world.

My reasons to live Were my reasons to die But at least they were mine Now I've freedom unbound Cut the laces of life

Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.

The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.

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.

We usually appreciate only half the cycle of impermanence. We can accept birth but not death, gain but not loss, or the end of exams but not the beginning. True liberation comes from appreciating the whole cycle and not grasping onto those things we find agreeable.

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

love is of the body; not the body, but of the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!

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

Now is when we can stop pretending to be normal.

Cyrus became lord of that great realm. His first act was to free all the peoples held in captivity by the Babylonians. Among them were the Jews, who went home to Jerusalem

There was simply the sense that she had found wings, and meant to use them.

Diyorum ki, bir gün sen de devrimci ve dans eden bir kad?nla baya??la?madan konu?abilirsen, i?te sizin devrim de ancak o zaman tamamlan?r.

To be liberated from the stigma of blackness by embracing it is to cease, forever, one's interior agreement and collaboration with the authors of one's degradation," he wrote.

Whenever we engage in a war or move in on some other country, it is always to liberate somebody.