Freedom QuotesFreedom quotes are reminders we may be walking free, yet imprisoned in our minds. Unlock those doors now. Free yourself from limiting thoughts. You hold the key to the freedom of your mind. Dreams are free, so free your dreams. Astrid Alauda Just living is not enough, said the butterfly, one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower. Hans Christian Andersen Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. Hannah Arendt Too many people are living in a prison that they have themselves manufactured. Michael Beckwith You can cage the singer but not the song. Harry Belafonte Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. John 8:32 Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy. Buddha A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself – to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart. Leo Buscaglia There is no freedom like seeing myself as I am and not losing heart. Elizabeth J. Canham There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. Hodding Carter, Jr. We have to laugh because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom. Rosario Castellanos If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all. Norm Chomsky There’s a wonder in the way we’re always free, to change the world by changing how we see. Cynki Craven Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. Dalai Lama You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free. Clarence Darrow I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. Antoine de Saint-Exupery I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Charles Dickens Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong. John Diefenbaker A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with freedom. Bob Dylan At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself. Albert Einstein Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population. Albert Einstein Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. Albert Einstein The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances. Viktor Frankl Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Mahatma Gandhi I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before anyone even at the cost of your life. Mahatma Gandhi I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures. Geronimo Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course. Kahlil Gibran What you call freedom is still nothing but choosing how to steer straight into the heart of what chooses you. Kate Gleason In the place of stillness, rises potential. From the place of potential, emerges possibility. Where there is possibility, there is choice. And where there is choice, there is freedom. Gabriella Goddard We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light! Hafiz I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. Robert A. Heinlein When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. Charles Evans Hughes The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. Steve Jobs The true American dream not only provides the freedom to use your gifts and talents to achieve your highest goal but also gives you the freedom to fulfill your purpose in life. You are meant to work in ways that suit you, drawing on your natural talents and gifts. This work, when you find it and commit to it -- even if only as a hobby -- is the key to happiness. Dennis Kimbro Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story. Maxine Kumin If I’m not free to fail, I’m not free to take risks and everything in life that’s worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk. Madeleine L’Engle Most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison. Sir John Lubbock Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Rosa Luxemburg Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. Rollo May If the future is to remain open and free, we have to rear individuals who can tolerate the unknown, will not need the support of completely worked-out systems, whether they be traditional ones from the past or blueprints of the future. Margaret Mead When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in motion, we sense the message…that our inner self has begun its search for freedom. Mary Meeker Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom. Michelangelo Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. Jim Morrison Art is the journey of a free soul. Alev Oguz If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. George Orwell I am leaving this legacy to all of you…to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace. Rosa Parks Creativity is like freedom: once you taste it, you cannot live without it. It is a transformational force, enhancing self-esteem and self-empowerment. Natalie Rogers Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Franklin D. Roosevelt Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. Carl Sandburg To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then ‘act as if’ you know how to do the rest. SARK Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action. Stendhal My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. Adlai Stevenson The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. Robert Louis Stevenson Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living. Eckhart Tolle Be bold, free, and truthful. Brenda Ueland We can laugh from either joy or happiness, but we weep only from grief or joy…Without the pain of farewell, there is no joy in reunion…without the pain of captivity, we don't experience the joy of freedom. George Vallant Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. Voltaire Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too. Voltaire 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 actually liberates others. Marianne Williamson Conscious awareness is the source of our healing…Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process. Marianne Williamson Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Marianne Williamson Nothing but what you volunteer has the essence of life, the springs of pleasure in it. These are the things you do because you want to do them, the things your spirit has chosen for its satisfaction. The more you are stimulated to such action the more clearly does it appear to you that you are a sovereign spirit, put into the world, not to wear a harness, but to work eagerly without it. Woodrow Wilson Return from Freedom Quotes and Sayings about Freedom to Quotes Listed by Subject
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