Freedom quotes

The freedom we are looking for

is the freedom to be ourselves,

to express ourselves.

But if we look at our lives

we will see that most of the time

we do things just to please others ...

The worst part is that most of us

are not even aware that we are not free.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,

no longer lend your strength to that

which you wish to be free from.

Fill your life with love and bravery,

and you shall live a life uncommon.

Jewel

The Divine Plan is one of Freedom.

The inherent nature of man is ever seeking

to express itself in terms of freedom,

because freedom is 

the birthright of every living soul.

Ernest Holmes

Is freedom anything else 

than the right to live as we wish?

Nothing else.

Epictetus

The only way to deal with an unfree world

is to become so absolutely free

that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Albert Camus

To know what you prefer

instead of humbly saying Amen

to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,

is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Our greatest happiness does not depend

on the condition of life

in which chance has placed us,

but is always the result 

of a good conscience, good health, occupation, 

and freedom in all just pursuits.

Thomas Jefferson

Free will is the key

to the prison of the mind.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All the great things are simple,

and many can be expressed in a single word:

freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Winston Churchill

No one can give you freedom but you.

Byron Katie

People hardly ever make use of the freedom

which they have, for example, freedom of thought;

instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.

Soren Kierkegaard

Our loved ones

whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice

are delicate treasures.

If we hold them too close, they break

as a butterfly would.

By honoring and enjoying

the freedom of our loved ones,

we gain our own freedom.

Have the courage to trust that

the beautiful butterflies of your life

will return - or not - as life intends.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Freedom lies in being bold.

Robert Frost

Every human has four endowments

self awareness, conscience,

independent will and creative imagination.

These give us the ultimate human freedom

The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Stephen Covey

We cannot defend freedom abroad

by deserting it at home.

Edward R. Murrow

Your life is the sum result

of all the choices you make,

both consciously and unconsciously.

If you can control the process of choosing,

you can take control of all aspects of your life.

You can find the freedom

that comes from being in charge of yourself.

Robert Foster Bennett

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kierkegaard

Love does not claim possession,

but gives freedom.

Rabindranath Tagore

The best road to progress

is freedom's road.

John F. Kennedy

To know how to free oneself is nothing;

the arduous thing is to know

what to do with one's freedom.

Andre Gide

We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom,

do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom

and die the death for freedom.

Charles G. Adams

We must be free 

not because we claim freedom,

but because we practice it.

William Faulkner

Freedom is from within.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The revelation of thought takes men

out of servitude into freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love allows your beloved

the freedom to be unlike you.

Attachment asks for conformity

to your needs and desires.

Love imposes no demands.

Attachment expresses

an overwhelming demand

"Make me feel whole."

Love expands 

beyond the limits of two people.

Attachment tries to exclude

everything but two people.

Deepak Chopra in The Path to Love

For to be free is not merely

to cast off one's chains,

but to live in a way that respects

and enhances the freedom of others.

Nelson Mandela

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 F. Buscaglia

When you become centered,

suddenly there is great freedom

because you know you are not the mind

and you are not the body.

Osho

You can chain me, you can torture me,

you can even destroy this body,

but you will never imprison my mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

Independence of nation

begins with independence of self.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone.

Freedom is like that. It's like air.

When you have it, you don't notice it.

Boris Yeltsin

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil

is no freedom for the tree.

Rabindranath Tagore

Education is the key to unlock

the golden door of freedom.

George Washington Carver

There is no such thing

as part freedom.

Nelson Mandela

Everything that is really great and inspiring

is created by the individual 

who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

Those who deny freedom to others

deserve it not for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is not procured

by a full enjoyment of what is desired,

but by controlling the desire.

Epictetus

Freedom is nothing

but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus

The road to freedom lies not through

mysteries or occult performances,

but through the intelligent use 

of natural forces and laws.

Ernest Holmes

Regrets and their cousins, resentments,

are a huge cause of self-inflicted suffering.

Sometimes it takes years of psychotherapy

to gain freedom from regrets about what you
did or did not do,

and freedom from resentment over what others
did or did not do.

Sometimes it takes a lifetime of self-talk to remember

to put the past in the past where it belongs.

However, sometimes a simple symbolic act
can help immeasurably

to grant ourselves freedom from the past.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free

and realizing you were the prisoner!

Max Lucado

Give me your tired, your poor,

your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

Written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor

Those who are free of resentful thoughts

surely find peace.

The Buddha

If you love something, set it free;

if it comes back it's yours,

if it doesn't, it never was.

Richard Bach

No man is free

who is not master of himself.

Epictetus

Live wild, life free,

live as master of your own fate.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who has overcome his fears
will truly be free.

Aristotle