Liberating Quotes - Page 15

• Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

  H. G. Wells

  Essence, Quality, Hinduism

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• As far as the underground liberation movement, it won't have any impact at all because they don't really care about those laws. Their activities - sabotaging, liberating animals - are already illegal so just adding one more law won't make much difference.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Impact, Law

  "Analysis: Bill targets animal activists". Article by Steve Mitchell, www.upi.com. November 14, 2006.

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• The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.

  Timothy Keller

  Giving Up, Grace, Demand

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.182, Penguin

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• The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating.

  Paulo Coelho

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 09, 2011

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• It's liberating to live at home during the week, but on the weekend it's like, Jesus Christ, how much History Channel can one human being watch?

  John Rzeznik

  Jesus, Home, Weekend

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• It's been liberating to be able to play someone who's a bada– or promiscuous, because that's the opposite of who I am … It's like a drug.

  Jessica Alba

  Who I Am, Opposites, Play

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• "I am breathing in and liberating my mind. I am breathing out and liberating my mind." One practices like this.

  Nhat Hanh

  Practice, Breathing, Mind

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• To love with expectations is, in the end, an oppressive, driven thing, and people know it when they receive it. To love as God loves us--in freedom and with no strings attached--is a way to grant others a liberating gift.

  Mark Galli

  Strings Attached, People, Expectations

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• But there is a compelling reason to develop a personal strategy for living. Rejecting issues, which often feels liberating, is actually enslavement. Those who do not produce their own solutions must be using someone else's. As Nietzsche warned 'he who cannot obey himself will be commanded'.

  Michael Foley

  Issues, Compelling Reason, Strategy

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• What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

  Thomas Frank

  Ethos, Trying, Culture

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• I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk. Let me give simple, responsible reasons: (1) It was a cakewalk last time; (2) they've become much weaker; (3) we've become much stronger; and (4) now we're playing for keeps.

  Kenneth Adelman

  Military, Believe, Simple

  "Cakewalk In Iraq". www.washingtonpost.com. February 13, 2002.

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• By accepting our aging and letting its lessons broaden us internally, we become calmer in the face of the body's inevitable deterioration. Becoming less attached to our outer appearance is so liberating.

  Wendy Lustbader

  Lessons, Faces, Becoming

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight.

  A. R. Ammons

  Block, Sight, Hue

  A. R. Ammons (1968). “Selected poems”

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• It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did.

  Leslie Jamison

  Writing, Character, Plot

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• Knowing that you are living in a dreamworld is very liberating, because it gives you the option of waking up.

  Srikumar Rao

  Knowing, Giving, Wake Up

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• Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy. Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational.

  John Dewey

  Educational, Past, Quality

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.173, 谷月社

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• I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

  Steve Swallow

  Voice, Style, Looks

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• I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.

  Lydia Lunch

  Thinking, Names, People

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• Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

  James A. Baldwin

  Spiritual, Arrogance, Atheism

  "Letter from a Region of My Mind" by James A. Baldwin in "The New Yorker" (November 17, 1962), republished as "Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind" in James A. Baldwin "The Fire Next Time", 1963.

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• In order to align your life choices with your values, you will need to inquire about the effects of your actions (and inactions) on yourself and others. Although we are always stumbling upon new knowledge that shifts our choices and life direction, bringing conscious inquiry to life means that we continually ask questions that lead us to the information we need to make thoughtful decisions. Asking questions is liberating because we develop great understanding and discover more choices with our new knowledge

  Zoe Weil

  Mean, Thoughtful, Asking Questions

  Zoe Weil (2009). “Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Focus, Welfare

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• If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind. The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. What you are is the beyond—awake and present, here and now already. I am simply helping you to realize that.

  Adyashanti

  Lying, Missing, Mind

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• In addition to all of the ratios and goals and parameters and bottom lines, it is fundamental that leaders endorse a concept of persons. This begins with an understanding of the diversity of people's gifts and talents and skills. Recognizing diversity gives us the chance to provide meaning, fulfillment and purpose, which are not to be relegated solely to private life any more than such things as love, beauty and joy. The art of leadership lies in polishing and liberating and enabling those gifts.

  Max De Pree

  Art, Lying, Love Is

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• I'm a songwriter. My voice just serves what I'm writing about. So to let all that go, I mean, bring the sensibilities of it actually to the song choices, but to just be the interpreter was incredibly liberating and really fun.

  Rosanne Cash

  Song, Fun, Writing

  "Rosanne Cash Runs Down Her Father's 'List'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 5, 2009.

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• Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.

  William H. Gray III

  Education, Powerful

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