Freedom Quotes

Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.

~ Luther Burbank

I'm not telling you to be quiet. I'm just saying that if you speak a little softer, we both might just hear what peace sounds like.

~ Noor Iskandar

Everything we have, everything we are, is a gift. How can we judge and shame ourselves if this is true?

~ Anna White

You are a creature meant to be free. Almost always, the person hardest to tell the truth to...is you. Once you can be honest with yourself, you'll find the strength and desire to be honest with others. It's the most freeing feeling imaginable. Go find a mirror and face yourself and your darkest truths. You have the light within you to chase away the dark demons that hold you down and push you back into the black corners of your past. You deserve better. You are a child of light and light hidden behind dark clouds, does nothing to brighten the world.

~ Toni Sorenson

I shall now call myself;I shall now call.In the forest of my heart, seeing myself,I shall love myself and love myself.I shall be my own quest,My absolute wealth.The journey of light supreme will commenceIn the heart of freedom.

~ Sri Chinmoy

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

~ Jeffrey Tucker

Trust is always a risk, but when placed in the right people after a trial period where they prove themselves worthy of it, it is a reward transcendent of all the emotional mire that bogs down a person’s potential.

~ A.j. Darkholme

When we embrace the opposites within ourselves and understand that inner harmony arises when they mature, we find the love, joy, silence and freedom that are hidden in every moment. It is my experience that it is through the inner female side that we find the depth within ourselves – independent of if we are a man or a woman. It is through the female side that we find the inner source of love and truth. It is through the female side that we lit the light of our own consciousness. The more we learn to know the inner man and woman and the more we accept their different visions of life, the more a meeting happens between them that makes us happy and satisfied. Through embracing both these sides in ourselves, we realize that we really lack nothing – but that we already are love. When both the male and female side is capable of living in trust, a love begins to flow between them – a love that was always possible, but not realized. The inner woman is the meditative quality within ourselves. The inner woman is the source of love and truth. The inner woman is the capacity to surrender to life. It is through the inner woman that we are in contact with life. It is the inner woman that is the door to belongingness with the Whole.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

There is no compromise when it comes to someones delicate feelings, the only way out is to stop pretending and set yourself free from someones life.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Sometimes when you hold on too loosely, it's as if you aren't holding on at all.

~ Layla M. Wier

A book about books is like a poem about poetry:Books are knowledge, paid for, all.Readers - horses in a stall.Stallions should always run.Lest they stale become, in turn.Running waters are most clear.In some books, you disappear –lose yourself, and track of time.How I wish that one was mine...Mine, to have, to write, to read...Mine, just like a flying steed.Mine, forever, - to improve.Would I then, of me, approve?I would not, I can't... myself.I'm but dust, swept off a shelf.Fly, can I, just 'til I'm settled,down, beside my flower, petalled.

~ Will Advise

People tended to forgive only partially. They forgave in order to, one day, get a chance to remind those they’d forgiven about their failings. They forgave to feel righteous. That’s why forgiveness was so painful – because it meant conceding. It meant letting go of her case without a rebuttal. True forgiveness knew no justice. It was liberating, most probably… but freedom comes at a cost. Freedom is never free.

~ Adelheid Manefeldt

If someone puts you through hell, don’t be mad or bitter about it, because the thing that will free you from that hell is forgiveness.

~ Jeanette Coron

Self-hatred is self-imprisonment. Self-forgiveness is self-liberation. You have the right to suppress yourself, oppress yourself and depress yourself. You have the right to impress yourself too. Feel happy!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When you forgive, you free your soul. But when you say I'm sorry, you free two souls.

~ Donald L. Hicks

In the closing of this chapter, Lutzer describes the choice of forgiveness in more detail: 'Without both honesty andforgiveness, there can be no freedom from the fits of rage.'What happens through the years when such anger is left unattended or is unresolved (or forgiveness is not pursued)? Without forgiveness, does the anger dissipate or possibly fade away? I don’t think so; but instead, anger continues in one’s life and is carried into their adulthood. What kind or level of control can manifest (or grow) in this unresolved anger; and as for the person or carrier, what can be expected of their heart and soul?

~ H. Kirk Rainer

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.

~ Corrie Ten Boom

When you forgive somebody, it’s not so much for them as it is for you. You need to be free from that. And you need to rise above that.

~ Lacey Sturm

When you forgive yourself, you free yourself from memories which aren’t serving you anymore.

~ Hina Hashmi

Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

~ Tim Fargo

Forgiveness is a process that we have to learn to act upon daily. Anger is weakened by forgiveness. When you forgive, you free yourself from carrying around the torment that the offense has caused you.

~ E'yen A. Gardner

Forgiveness of sins is great, but I'd rather have the ability to quit doing the things I keep needing forgiveness for.

~ D.r. Silva

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when they make their tormentors suffer. In seeking the Bird's death to free himself, Louie had chained himself, once again, to his tyrant. During the war, the Bird had been unwilling to let go of Louie; after the war, Louie was unable to let go of the Bird.

~ Laura Hillenbrand

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

~ Tyler Perry

How could any boy know that freedom is lost the moment you become a man. Things start to count. To press in. Constricting slowly, inevitably, creating a cage of inconveniences and duties and deadlines and failed plans and lost friends.

~ Pierce Brown

I never thought that freedom would feel so much like grief.

~ Rosamund Hodge

Being married definitely took work. When we fought, I felt like I wanted to float away and drown, whereas before I knew I could walk away without any strings attached.

~ Brenda Perlin

He would say things like, “But you are my wife!” when I didn’t do something that he wanted me to do. His expectations were not realistic.

~ Brenda Perlin

Though there is much we still want, there is much we already have, and that means we have much to lose as well. It’s that potential loss that can keep us bound so tightly that we never reach our biggest dreams, because the biggest dreams require the most risk.

~ A.j. Darkholme

None of us will truly have freedom until we know what it means to lose everything - Laney

~ Bailey Vincent

Free is he who is reputable for not being fearful of losing his reputation.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Birds shouldn't be able to find tearsThey are the definition of freedom

~ Maddy Kobar

People do not belong to others, either. How can the huincas buy and sell people if they do not own them. Sometimes the boy went two or three days without speaking a word, surly, and not eating, and when asked what was the matter, the answer was always the same: There are content days and there are sad days. Each person is a master of his silence.

~ Isabel Allende

precious laughing time is wasted, because I have to put up with Satan's stupid minions who smile without attempting to anger somebody else - leave us alone already.

~ A Gentlemen

Oil may run out, liquidity may dry up, but as long as ink flows freely, the next chapter of Life will continue to be written.

~ Alex Morritt

Life is a balancing act. While we have all the rights to be in freedom, peace, harmony and bliss; we do have a responsibility to ensure that others too enjoy their own freedom, peace, harmony and bliss.

~ Vishwas Chavan

Unfortunately, we cannot live our lives according to the moral and religious convictions or petrified dogmas of our forebears. We have an obligation to live by our own faith, forever renewing the traditions of the past and adapting them to the demands of own time and place.

~ Farquhar Mcharg

So many people spend years (and money) studying to be doctors, lawyers, actors, dancers, business executives and scientists - when you're an author, you can be any of these things, and you don't need a degree or certificate; all you need is an imagination, a dream and an open mind.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.I missed them all, through deliberate negligence,Having waited for the urge to go, which I knew wouldn’t come.I’m free, and against organized, clothed society.I’m naked and plunge into the water of my imagination.

~ Fernando Pessoa