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Quotes About Liberation

It's as if you've been walking against a great wind all your life, and then the wind is gone, and you can't walk.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There comes a time when a house owns you and you know you have to get free of it, and go on with the rest of your life.
~ Anne Rice
At times I felt a huge exhilaration, a freedom from all falsehoods and conventions, all means by which a soul or body can be held hostage!
~ Anne Rice
our soul, once set free, seeks only to return.
~ Anne Rice
She has. No. Plan.
~ Anne Tyler
He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars.
~ Annie Dillard
Freedom has a way of destroying things.
~ Scott Westerfeld
something that will make the hairs of your head stand on end! The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings that normally we keep locked up in the heart. The great composers of the past were able to do this, but the musicians of today are satisfied with four notes in a line you can sell on a song-sheet at the street corner. Genius does not find its recognition quite as easily as that, my dear Madame Azaire!
~ Sebastian Faulks
Wealth is supposed to liberate us from the dangers of dependency, but quickly becomes a dependency in its own right. The wealthier we are, the higher our standard of living and the more—not less—we depend on society for our safety and comfort.
~ Sebastian Junger
There is a fierce joy to letting loose, to cutting yourself free from all the countless mundane threads of restraint that fix like you in your place, that tighten so gradually day by day that you do not even realize how bowed you are until you're quit of them.
~ Shana Abé
I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.
~ Sharon Olds
To be truly happy in this world is a revolutionary act because true happiness depends upon a revolution in ourselves. It is a radical change of view that liberates us so that we know who we are most deeply and can acknowledge our enormous ability to love.
~ Sharon Salzberg
in this world is a revolutionary act because true happiness depends upon a revolution in ourselves. It is a radical change of view that liberates us so that we know who we are most deeply and can acknowledge our enormous ability to love. We are liberated by the truth that every single one of us can take the time and pay attention; we
~ Sharon Salzberg
Wir werden die vier Feinde in dieser Reihenfolge behandeln, weil auch der Weg der Befreiung durch die Überwindung von Ärger, Angst und Selbstbezogenheit im Allgemeinen diesen Verlauf von außen nach innen nimmt.
~ Sharon Salzberg
There are some of you here today who feel like dead people. It is as if you are already six feet under, staring up at the top of your own locked coffin. This morning Jesus wants to set you free. You simply have to let go of the key and pass it through the little hole, where you see a tiny shaft of light.
~ Sheila Walsh
Naked women + right hand = happy happy joy joy
~ Sherman Alexie
You have to sleep sometime. (Xypher) So do you. (Julian) Down, boys, down. Please, I just want to be free before I get testosterone poisoning. (Simone)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.
~ D. H. Lawrence
If you do not for give you actually are tying yourself to the perpetrator, that you are going to live your life as a victim. And you won't experience a liberation that comes from forgiving.
~ Desmond Tutu
I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
~ Fay Wray
I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free" "You are free. You just don't know it yet
~ Francine Rivers
When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.
~ Frederick Lenz
There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to enter into the world of advanced meditation.
~ Frederick Lenz
Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse form. Don't be concerned one way or the other.
~ Frederick Lenz