Your Freedom Quotes - Page 4

There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.

Byron Katie

Freedom, Inquiry, Sake

Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life”, p.162, Random House

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Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap—I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you—because you know how to perform them—have no choice, either. What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too. If abortion was legal, a woman would have a choice—and so would you. You could feel free not to do it because someone else would. But the way it is, you're trapped. Women are trapped. Women are victims, and so are you.

John Irving

Choices, Abortion, Needs

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Leroy interrupted Chantal's fantasies: "Freedom? As you live our your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom. You're free to melt your own individuality into the cauldron of the multitude either with a feeling of defeat or euphoria.

Milan Kundera

Choices, Feelings, Individuality

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Being famous is like a dream come true but it's really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don't want to lose being a kid.

Miley Cyrus

Dream, Kids, Want

"That's Showbuzz! Highlights of U.S. celeb magazines", uk.reuters.com. November 30, 2007.

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Your freedom is a supreme value. Nothing is higher than that. But your freedom is possible only if you are not encaged in your habits, unconscious patterns of living. Change your gestalt from unconsciousness to consciousness.

Rajneesh

Freedom, Gestalt, Patterns

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Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

Rajneesh

Attachment, Independence, Individuality

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What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

Tom Clancy

Government, Libertarian Party, People

"Kudlow & Cramer" Interview, September 02, 2003.

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Do the things you used to talk about doing but never did. Know when to let go and when to hold on tight. Stop rushing. Don't be intimidated to say it like it is. Stop apologizing all the time. Learn to say no, so your yes has some oomph. Spend time with the friends who lift you up, and cut loose the ones who bring you down. Stop giving your power away. Be more concerned with being interested than being interesting. Be old enough to appreciate your freedom, and young enough to enjoy it. Finally know who you are.

Kristin Armstrong

Life, Happy, Letting Go

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If you want to remain totally free, then don't choose. That's where the teaching of choiceless awareness comes in. Why the insistence of the great masters just to be aware and not to choose? Because the moment you choose, you have lost your total freedom, you are left with only a part. But if you remain choiceless, your freedom remains total. So there is only one thing which is totally free and that is choiceless awareness. Everything else is limited.

Rajneesh

Teaching, Want, Moments

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...there is therefore now no condemnation for two reasons: you are dead now; and God, as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, has been dead all along. The blame game was over before it started. It really was. All Jesus did was announce that truth and tell you it would make you free. It was admittedly a dangerous thing to do. You are a menace. Be he did it; and therefore, menace or not, here you stand: uncondemned, forever, now. What are you going to do with your freedom?

Robert Farrar Capon

Jesus, Games, Two

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As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held by a leash; you can only fly so far.

Francois Fenelon

Powerful, Mean, Long

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My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance. I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve me. Deity has no needs. "All that is" is exactly that: all that is. It therefore wants or lacks nothing, by definition.

Neale Donald Walsch

Joy, Needs, Definitions

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It is everyone's right to achieve this state of ones evolution and everything necessary is already inbuilt. But as I respect your freedom, you have to have the desire to achieve this state, it cannot be forced upon you!

Nirmala Srivastava

Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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Your body, the only one you will ever have, is the foundation of your life. And it’s either an anchor limiting your freedom and potential or a source of radiant energy, vitality and joy, elevating your life and the lives of those around you. It’s your choice… will yours be a source of strength, from which you will impact the world, or an obstacle, preventing you from your dreams and desires? … As my friend, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway is fond of saying,'If you’re going to bother setting a goal, aim high!'… My advice to you, aim high; aim for strength.

Shawn Phillips

Dream, Impact, Anchors

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If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one

Benjamin Franklin

Inspirational, Giving Up, Safety

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Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn.

Richard Stallman

Politics, Want, Teach

"Linŭ, GNU, and freedom". "LinŭWorld", May 2002.

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So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

Ruggiero Ricci

Play, Firsts, Watches

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When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

Masha Gessen

Opportunity, Company You Keep, Firsts

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When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.

Zig Ziglar

Inspirational, Character, Exercise

Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.258, Thomas Nelson Inc

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To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

Connie Willis

Dog, Sacrifice, Cost

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You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand." "If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.

Judy Blume

Giving Up, Mean, Being In Love

FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Feb 16, 2013

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But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?…we have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.

Adrienne Rich

Mother, Children, Men

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There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them.

Connie Willis

Giving Up, Giving, Periods

Connie Willis (1993). “Impossible things”, Spectra

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People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restrictsyour thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic.

Haruki Murakami

People, Priorities, Needs

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Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

John Adams

Freedom, Patriotic, History

Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.173, UPNE

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