Liberating Quotes - Page 2

• What libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live and the future that we can only imagine. These places have teachers who are living and dead and we are lucky to have them. If I sit here and read Aristotle, he is speaking to me across a thousand years - more than a thousand years. That sense that I am in the company of the great greatest people who ever lived is a humbling experience but a liberating experience.

  Pete Hamill

  Teacher, Past, Years

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• No matter the barbs of fate that frustrate you, no matter how stacked against you the cards of fortune. . . . There is a liberating law in the universe, and you can become the highest of the high, wisest of the wise.

  Uell Stanley Andersen

  Wise, Fate, Law

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• The freedom of knowing that you're doing something off-kilter is liberating.

  David Krumholtz

  Knowing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments of grief, loss, and change. Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched. Wisdom is alive only as long as it is lived, understanding is liberating only as long as it is applied.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Grief, Heart

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• The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.

  Susan Sontag

  Witty, Exercise, Men

  "Notes on 'Camp'" by Susan Sontag, note 54, (p. 291), 1964.

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• Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from capitalist to socialist ownership in private industry and commerce is bound to bring about a tremendous liberation of the productive forces. Thus, the social conditions are being created for a tremendous expansion of industrial and agricultural production.

  Mao Zedong

  Agriculture, Expansion, Revolution

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• Giving up the illusion that you can predict the future is a very liberating moment. All you can do is give yourself the capacity to respond... the creation of that capacity is the purpose of strategy.

  John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley

  Giving Up, Humor, Deep Thought

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• When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience.

  Richard Holloway

  Forgiveness, Human Experience, Humans

  Richard Holloway (2002). “On Forgiveness: How Can We Forgive the Unforgivable?”, p.12, Canongate Books

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• ...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a hundred billion stars the size of the sun. These numbers are so absurd that I strangely find myself in a good mood. It's all so immense. I think Paul feels a bit like this as well. There is so little I can do to make a difference. It is liberating.

  Erlend Loe

  Stars, Thinking, Differences

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.45, Canongate Books

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• I've just never talked about it. But it's so liberating. It was interesting to be coming to have a conversation that I was always afraid to have. This is my coming out ball. I've been dying to do this.

  Sean Maher

  Interesting, Dying, Balls

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• Nothing like this has been attempted before. (...) It might be called a literary Porto Alegre. That implies a beginning, with much fierce argument and discussion to come. But whatever the outcome of ensuing criticisms or objections, The World Republic of Letters -- empire more than republic, as Casanova shows -- is likely to have the same sort of liberating impact at large as Said's Orientalism, with which it stands comparison.

  Perry Anderson

  Impact, Criticism, Orientalism

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• Performance capture is a genre of acting which is not going to go away, it's going to proliferate more and more. I'm passionate about it, and I love it. It's the most liberating tool an actor has, because you are not limited by your own physicality, look, or color of your eyes.

  Andy Serkis

  Eye, Color, Going Away

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• . . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of their lives. They know they will have to work, whether they are married or single; work to them, unlike to white women, is not a liberating goal, but rather an imposed lifelong necessity.

  Gerda Lerner

  Self, White, Goal

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• The Americans have gone through 150 years of ups and downs, to pull themselves up out of the mud. After only 15 years, Russia is already in the process of liberating itself from the same thing.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Russia, Years, Gone

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There's something about approaching 50 that's very liberating. Political struggle has always been a 24-hour-a-day job for me. I felt I could never take time out for myself. Now I feel I owe it to myself to develop in ways I've been putting off all my life.

  Assata Shakur

  Jobs, Struggle, Political

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• I don't have to live up to that Superwoman myth. I can cry and be human and lean on people who take care of me. That can be very liberating.

  Assata Shakur

  People, Care, Cry

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• The script in many ways is limiting and novel is liberating. You get to go into the heads of your characters and their background and have fun with them; something you are discouraged from doing with a script. With the novel, I can tell you what the characters are thinking, I can tell you their view of the world, background information, things I wouldn't dare touch in the script.

  Juliet Asante

  Fun, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.premiumtimesng.com

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• Failing at something is one thing, but Buddhism tells us that it is up to us how we interpret that failure [Buddhism] a philosophy and way of life that resonates with me I identify with it. I agree with so much of the sentiment behind it. I enjoy the liberating effect it's had on me to get back into the game Buddhism, with its concepts of karma and rebirth, have freed me from the twin fears of death and life without rugby, like life, will also come to an end.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Karma, Philosophy, Buddhism

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• Once you lose attachment to how you want things to be because you realize you don't control anything, there's a curiously liberating aspect of that. I've always been a control freak, I've always felt that if I try hard enough, everyone I love will be kept safe and everything will be okay. Being shown, in such brutal terms, that that's simply not the way it works, in someways, it messed me up.  I've been through hell, but on another level, if you pile up so much tragedy, it either destroys you, or you just start laughing about it. Because at the end of the day, no one gets out alive.

  Daniele Bolelli

  Attachment, Laughing, Trying

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• Truth is more important, freedom is more complex, and Jesus is more liberating than you think.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Thinking, Important

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• Im interested in the liberating aspect of being totally untethered, let loose in the worst possible environments. My favorite artists are always women that do things that are so wrong... I like things to be seven kinds of wrong. If they are seven kinds of wrong, sometimes the wrongs neutralize themselves, and the whole thing becomes.

  Ashley Bickerton

  Artist, Kind, Environment

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• Even if you don't release it, find a scream. It's so liberating. You can do anything then. It’s like you can fly. It gives you superpowers.

  Courtney Love

  Giving, Female, Scream

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. May 1, 2014.

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• Instead of fixating on the physical aspects of aging, it's good to contemplate the deeper source of our anxiety. That can be liberating.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Anxiety, Aging, Source

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Our basic aim is to liberate the land from the Mediterranean Seas to the Jordan River. We are not concerned with what took place in June 1967 or in eliminating the consequences of the June war. The Palestinian revolution's basic concern is the uprooting of the Zionist entity from our land and liberating it.

  Yasser Arafat

  War, June, Sea

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• There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized... Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42. One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course.

  Conan O'Brien

  Dream, Fall, Rising

  Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, www.dartmouth.edu. June 12, 2011.

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