Free Spirit Quotes - Page 4

• My mother was a huge influence on me - she was a free spirit and helped me appreciate, from a very early age, that everyone is different.

  Christian Louboutin

  Mother, Appreciate, Age

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Basically, I'm a free spirit. I'm kind of an Everywoman.

  Pamela Anderson

  Spirit, Kind

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• Testimony is contingent on experience, that's why we're all free spirits

  Phil Collins

  Spirit, Testimony

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• I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.

  Alice Walker

  Buddhist, Believe, Earth

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2005.

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• Listen to this, Nimit. Follow Coleman Hawkins' improvised lines very carefully. He is using them to tell us something. Pay very close attention. He is telling us the story of the free spirit that is doing everything it can to escape from within him. That same kind of spirit is inside me, inside you. There-you can hear it, I'm sure: the hot breath, the shivering heart. (Thailand)

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Hot, Attention

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “After The Quake”, p.73, Random House

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• Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.

  Brian Schmidt

  Thinking, Australia, Boxes

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• Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it just adds fuel to the fire that has never been and will never be extinguished.

  William Powell

  Men, Fire, Doe

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, "Postscript", p. 153, 1971.

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• When I paint to please other people I tend to lose the free spirit creative edge.

  Ted Martinez

  People, Creative, Paint

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• A true community consists of individuals - not mere species members, not couples - respecting each others individuality and privacy while at the same time interacting with each other mentally and emotionally - free spirits in free relation to each other - and co-operating with each other to achieve common ends. Traditionalists say the basic unit of "society" is the family; "hippies" say the tribe; noone says the individual.

  Valerie Solanas

  Couple, Hippie, Community

  "SCUM Manifesto". P. 7, 1967.

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• I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.

  Abu Nuwas

  Giving Up, Lust, Pleasure

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• all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

  Emma Goldman

  Government, Weight, Form

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• I love being naked. I'm a free spirit.

  Alessandra Torresani

  Love Is, Naked, Spirit

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have friends who have a normal family, kids and a dog, and I think I would blow my brains out. It's fine for them. But I'm such a free spirit, I feel more alive when I've got somewhere to go.

  Kenny Chesney

  Dog, Kids, Thinking

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• Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Freedom, Believe, Heart

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• I used to be a free spirit.

  Soleil Moon Frye

  Spirit, Used, Used To Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think I'm like a free spirit.

  Bai Ling

  Thinking, Spirit

  Interview with Vicki Hogarth, www.askmen.com. May 8, 2009.

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• I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

  Alice Walker

  Falling In Love, Imagination, Fallen

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.298, The New Press

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• The modern picture of the artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself forever free from the bonds of the greedy bourgeoisie, to be whatever the fat burghers feared most, to cross the line wherever they drew it, to look at the world in a way they couldn't see, to be high, live low, stay young forever -- in short, to be the bohemian.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Cutting, Artist, Forever

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• I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Atheist, Atheism, Owing

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.36, SUNY Press

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• In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Congress And The President, Giving, Civil War

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Poetry, Tennis

  Address to Milton Academy, Milton, Mass., 17 May 1935

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• Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Thinking, Light, Goes On

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 36, 1799.

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• True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible however never means weakness but something more like adaptability and openmindedness. Gentleness always overcomes strength.

  Kyuzo Mifune

  Strength, Mean, Words Of Wisdom

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• As you embrace the present and become one with it, and merge with it, you will experience a fire, a glow, a sparkle of ecstasy throbbing in every sentient being. As you begin to experience this exultation of spirit in everything that is alive, as you become intimate with it, joy will be born within you, and you will drop the terrible burdens of defensiveness, resentment, and hurtfulness... then you will become lighthearted, carefree, joyous, and free.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Anger

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• The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Encouragement, Truth, Fear

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