Freedom Quotes

Spinoza was the supreme rationalist. He saw an endless stream of causality in the world. For him there is no such entity as will or will power. Nothing happens capriciously. Everything is caused by something prior, and the more we devote ourselves to the understanding of this causative network, the more free we become. ... I'm sure he would have said that you are subject to passions that are driven by inadequate ideas rather than by the ideas that flow from a true quest for understanding the nature of reality. ... He states explicitly that a passion ceases to be a passion as soon as we form a more clear and distinct idea of it--that is, the causative nexus underlying the passion. p.269

~ Irvin D. Yalom

Isn’t it better just to make your own money, and then spend it how and when you want, and with dignity?

~ Zack Love

You need to bridge the gap between reality and freedom. Drugs are the bridge.

~ Johnny Rich

Tough love and brutal truth from strangers are far more valuable than Band-Aids and half-truths from invested friends, who don’t want to see you suffer any more than you have.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We refuse to acknowledge something that is blatantly obvious because either we are closed or we don't know how to face it.

~ Santosh Sharma

Some people can’t be in your life because they don’t have the power to help you improve it. That doesn’t mean you don’t wish them well, it just means that you are on Chapter ten of your life, when they are on Chapter five. Maybe, it is just enough to meet at the crossroads in life and agree to take separate paths, then with a cheshire grin you both look back and shout, “Beat you to the top of the mountain”, followed by the funnest sprint of both of your lives.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Maybe your right. Maybe I should blame myself… Who the hell needs that?

~ Nana Mary Roseanne

Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of physical freedom, but garnered none of the benefits of it.

~ Nenia Campbell

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the evidence of witches, and deserves no more respect.I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech — alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.I believe in the capacity of man to conquer his world, and to find out what it is made of, and how it is run.I believe in the reality of progress.I —But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.

~ H.l. Mencken

In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect, cyclic existence, the awareness that the reality that we think we are seeing is not reality as it really truly is. So enlightenment is seeing reality with bare awareness, non-conceptual reality.

~ Zeena Schreck

Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped

~ Alan Sheinwald

The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.

~ Alan Sheinwald

Freedom is a daring liberation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be happy. Be happy for no reason at all. Believe it or not, you have the ability and free agency to make that choice.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Sometime excess pain that we experience may be best reason for birth of our talent and sometime our excess talent may be best reason for our pain. Think about it.

~ Rajendra Ojha

Its just a matter of time, a positive mentality and a freedom; you will find yourself enjoying in your own world.

~ Sakin Maharjan

You can make heaven out of hell, or hell out of heaven. The choice is yours.

~ Shannon L. Alder

And in a flash I understood the meaning of sex. It is a craving of mingling of consciousness, whose symbol is the mingling of bodies. Every time a man and a woman slake their thirst in the strange waters of the other's identity, they glimpse the immensity of their freedom.

~ Colin Wilson

Why are you so angry with your Duckling, harry? Don't you like it when I open my legs wide to you? Cross them over you - the way you like? What will you do when your little Duckling isn't there anymore to touch you with her soft fingertips, Harry, where you like it? First the left nipple and then the right. Your Duckling doesn't want to leave you, Harry.Duckling...I need freedom sometimes, Harry.

~ Timberlake Wertenbaker

By all means be submissive in the bedroom (if you are that way inclined), but don't be submissive to life. Being life's bitch is no fun at all. Life may play up in many ways, but it's up to you to take control, take charge and show life who's really calling the shots.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Release your Inner Bonobo

~ Susan Block

There is enough conformity in the world Lord MacCaulay. I doubt that mine, or lack of it, will send the planet from its axis. Meanwhile, my heart does not soar for the riches you set before me. Perhaps one day, I may feel differently. For now, I wish to taste that which most women do not.”Mademoiselle Noire - The Gentlemen's Club

~ Emmanuelle De Maupassant

If I am capable of loving you Lord MacCaulay, of devoting myself to you, it will never be under the terms to which other women submit, for I am battle-born – a female warrior sworn to defy the bonds which enslave those of my sex. I will not, purely to follow common ideas of decency and femininity, give up my enjoyment of other men.”Mademoiselle Noire - The Gentlemen's Club

~ Emmanuelle De Maupassant

Thinking about the bed leaves you horny, but thinking beyond the bed gives you honor, freedom and wisdom.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Great sex is all about freedom and being everything you’ve always wanted to be. Know now that the only limits you have in regards to your own sexuality are the ones you impose on yourself.

~ Roberto Hogue

If you love sex, let it be known. You don’t have to walk around downtown naked or have some flyers printed up, but definitely don’t be shy about your love (or obsession) for sex.

~ Roberto Hogue

When I was 14-15 There was nothing to my lifebut dancing and sexI'd go to night clubs and danceThen I'd meet someone and have sexit was Fine and easynothing to doBUT Think with my bodylike a birdI Thought I was FreeTrAcey Emin

~ Tracey Emin

Without freedom of sex, all freedoms are temporary.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Chloe didn't have all the answers, either. I knew that now. But she had known something all along that I hadn't: that being ashamed of what you want or how you feel is pointless, and letting anyone else make you feel ashamed is a waste. We all wanted different things, and that was okay. Chloe wanted sex without commitment. Mary wanted to wait until she was ready. And I wasn't sure what I wanted, but I didn't want to make any decisions until I knew. And I was proud of that.

~ Kody Keplinger

The most glorious moment you will ever experience in your life is when you look back and see how God was protecting you all this time.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Freedom begins in the mind of the individual. You'll never be able to do a particular thing if you don't navigate your thoughts positively. Complaining and neglecting to take action creates stagnation. Free your mind and the rest will follow.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Freedom, joy or bliss doesn't come from the situation that we think we should be, but it derives from the one that we are already in.

~ Aditya Ajmera

We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Hmm. I think love is about loving all things, to treat each and every thing and every one as a sovereign being that’s free to make its own choices.

~ Michael Sanders

Happiness is more of a necessity than a choice thus we must consider it a priority in everyday's life.

~ Auliq Ice

It is not a person or situation that affects your life; it is the meaning you give to that person or situation, which influences your emotions and actions. Your choice is to change the meaning you gave it or to change your response, in order to create the outcome you want.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Prayer still works, you need not be so quick to judge another person. You never know what they are going through. Instead, pray for them. Send encouragement their way.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

The mother is the child's first relationship, his whole world, his existence. If there is love in the relationship between the child and the mother, the child learns to trust himself, to trust others and to trust life. If there is no love in the relationship between the mother and the child, the child learns to distrust himself, to distrust others and to distrust life.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

A child comes from God, a child is a gift from God, but a child is not our possession. Give the child unconditional love and freedom. Respect the child, the child has its own soul. The child has its own way.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

Do not conform to seek the seekers, but leave the leavers. Wisdom comes from facing what you do not yet understand.

~ Shannon L. Alder