Life Quotes

Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.

~ Criss Jami

I dig and plough at your command,' I replied, 'but you will not tell me how to shit.

~ Maria Mccann

True freedom only exists in art.The problem is you have to be incredibly good.No,I am putting it wrong:You don't so much have to be outstanding,what you really need are connections,if you don't want to be dependent on all kinds of government foundations who will impose their ideas and restrictions on you in turn.It can be touch and go in the beginning:It takes guts to let go of everything.But you make it,you're free.

~ Esther Verhoef

So does he live, seeking, finding, joying and suffering.

~ Kate Chopin

We're all free to chose some people to love, and then do it.

~ Jordan Sonnenblick

Now it was done. He was free of Xanth forever. Free to make his own life, without being ridiculed or mothered or tempted. Free to be himself.Bink put his face in his hands and cried.

~ Piers Anthony

I'd left them because I'd loved them. Beth and my parents and my friends and my life-my free, American life. I loved them, and if I had a chance to protect them from the people who wanted to destroy them then I had to take that chance even if it meant I would never see them again.

~ Andrew Klavan

From the beginning, Judeo-Christian principles have been the foundation for American public dialogue and government policy. They serve as the solid basis for political activism in support of a better socioeconomic environment. Found in American homes, truth from the Hebrew Christian Bible has enabled individual liberty to prevail over secular empires because it is a practical message about reality from man’s Creator. In their quest for liberty, Americans focused upon the conspicuously self-evident “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” It is the governing character of these principles (laws), such as humility, the Golden Rule, and the Ten Commandments, that leads to success. This is the sure foundation upon which man’s right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” rests. Called “virtue” by America’s Founding Fathers, the impartial and divine element frees man to do what is right. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (2 Cor. 3:17).

~ David A. Norris

...the Pope vigorously upholds the real power of redemption to liberate the human heart from the domination of lust, calling men and women to a new ethos.

~ Christopher West

The feeling of being both trapped and free at the same time is the most mind twisting feeling of all.

~ Melody Lee

Life shouldn’t be a monotonous cycle day after day. Life is meant to be explored, enjoyed, and, well, lived. You can’t live your life happily without seeing new things and putting yourself in new positions. Life is magical with endless possibility and should be lived as such. Allow yourself some freedom. Enjoy life, don’t just live it.

~ Avina Celeste

There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Blue for everyone but it was not for freedom.Just like you, like me

~ Baali

What they display, these students who don't arrive in the reading room until nine, or even later, is a kind of daring. They play with life, with possibilities. For me my studies are like a tightrope I'm balancing on, life will begin only when I've reached the other side. Only when I'm standing there triumphantly, with a glowing testimonial and glittering results, only then, I think to myself, will I be free.

~ Hanne Ørstavik

The world is a forgotten place.

~ Nina Hrusa

Memories can sometimes be more powerful than the present.

~ Anna Aquino

Memories? Pheh. Those just get in the way of living.

~ Tsukumizu

Once you discover freedom, you want to capture it, never let it go.

~ Geneen Roth

(…) symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the human reality…

~ Simone De Beauvoir

Zen is a path of liberation. It liberates you. It is freedom from the first step to the last. You are not required to follow any rules, you are required to find out your own rules and your own life in the light of awareness.

~ Osho

​Who gets to Live? You or Your Rules?

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

It used to be that rebels were the type who wore leather jackets, rode motorcycles, smoked cigarettes and drank cheap domestic beer. Today’s rebels are people who look at their world critically and observe the ensnaring patterns of the consumeristic lifestyle. (Life Hacks, p.50

~ Jon Morrison

Don't ask me to pray, instead ask me to act.

~ Moonshine Noire

The only way a man can realise his freedom, its only when he has freed his mind. Therefore, freedom means nothing if the mind is still not free. Free your mind and it will free your life too.

~ Kabelo Mabona

Liberty is a constant battle between government; who would limit it, people; who would concede it, and patriots; who would defend it.

~ Samuel R. Young Jr.

Living independent might come as appalling as the word to anyone but me. The one who thinks it's a cool idea and worth it, has sure forgotten that independence comes with a price. If one doesn't still agree, you gotta try staying at a hostel.

~ Parul Wadhwa

Money does not buy you freedom. Time does.

~ J.r. Rim

Oh, merciless freedom, you continue to overwhelm me! You demand that I challenge myself and feel ashamed, and yet continue to feel so outrageously proud to live a life full of my desires.

~ Nina George

Bird of the skystill bound to the earth,soaring to unimaginable heightsyet returning to perch in the willow.Death is near, always nearand so...is lifeeven in the ashes.Rise Up Phoenix.Live. Fly. Create!

~ Michele Jennae

Instead of breaking or cherry-picking the rules, many just follow the inner rules, which have been instilled during their lifetime and have subtly permeated their thinking. They value rules, as it offers the ravishment of a securing, ceremonial rhythm in life and it prevents them from breaking free from their cocoon, all the more because freedom can be so scaring and exhausting. (When forgetting the rules of the game )

~ Erik Pevernagie

I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldn’t resist stealing up to the edge of doom and peering over the brink (…) That was a very different thing from wanting to die.

~ Jon Krakauer

Singers provide all the proof that we have souls.

~ J.r. Rim

Out of all the creatures that roam the earth man is the only one that managed to enslave itself.

~ Antonio Kowatsch

I didn't know the first thing about the people around me, but that didn't matter: I was in a new world; and I had the feelings that at last I had put my finger on the secret of freedom.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

Nurture the inside burn, for that is the key to your bliss,Bestow ecstasy to the neighbouring, get drunk in your freedom.Waltz away to life’s symphony, Breathe Free.

~ Kitty Jose

She's a gypsy girl living in a materialistic world, Unattached to most things but in love with life itself.

~ Nikki Rowe

Sometimes the very things that we’re expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are killing our ability to live. And against our blind and frequently raging protests, these are the very things that God let’s die so that we can live.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Endangering human life for profit should be a universal crime.

~ Suzy Kassem

You stop revisiting memories when you outgrow the people you made them with.

~ Nikki Rowe

My mother smoked two packs of cigarettes a day. Before she smoked her first cigarette, she was free to choose whether or not she would smoke. After awhile, her freedom reverted to Satan—so it would seem. The choice was no longer hers—so it would seem. Her mind and body were attacked with nicotine cravings that got so bad she would sometimes sacavage through garbage cans for butts when she’d run short on full cigarettes. I watched, baffled at how something so small and so disgusting to me could have such power over my mother. That’s the thing about addiction—it binds us one choice at a time. That’s also the good news about addition—you can unravel the hold it has on you—one choice at a time.

~ Toni Sorenson