Quotes Tagged "freedom"

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of the head. But I say a good love is one that casts you into the wind, sets you ablaze, makes you burn through the skies and ignite the night like a phoenix; the kind that cuts you loose like a wildfire and you can't stop running simply because you keep on burning everything that you touch! I say that's a good love; one that burns and flies, and you run with it!

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.

Freely we serve Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.