Being Free Quotes

• Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.

  Bill Rodgers

  Life, Mean, Winning

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• A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

  John Stuart Mill

  Freedom, War, Military

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• Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

  Paul Tillich

  Decision, Risk, Rooted

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• Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Relationship, Wise

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• Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

  Emma Goldman

  Feminism, Desire, Modern Woman

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Children, Freedom, Real

  "‘Four Agreements’ Author Don Miguel Ruiz Reveals How Doubt Can Lead To Happiness" by don Miguel Angel Ruiz, don Jose Ruiz, with Janet Mills, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2013.

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• Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

  Bono

  Brother, Distance, Unity

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  For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

  Confucius

  Happiness, Happy, Powerful

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• I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Taken, Shooter

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• Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

  James Broughton

  Song, Laughing, Silence

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• I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.

  Carrie Fisher

  Bipolar, Three, Illness

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• The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

  Georges Bataille

  Crush, Men, Literature

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• Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.

  Hugh Laurie

  Inspirational, Morning, Thinking

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• We cannot free ourselves unless we move forward united in a single desire.

  Emilio Aguinaldo

  Inspirational, Single, Freedom

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• I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, Men, Identity

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 98, 1799.

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• He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Poverty, Endure

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• True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

  Leonid Afremov

  Depression, Art, Freedom

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• We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.

  Kavita Ramdas

  Education, Strong Women, Passion

  "'Having it all doesn't mean doing it all': Women's grad advice to women" by Eun Kyung Kim, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you.

  Andrew Wilkow

  Relationship, Being Yourself, Freedom

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• The secret to freedom is to realize that you don’t have to believe your mind. You don’t have to believe your story. You don’t have to believe that voice in your head. You don’t have to believe your own thinking. You can simply observe it and say, “Thank you for sharing,” and then take the necessary action you’re scared to take anyway.

  T. Harv Eker

  Motivational, Thank You, Freedom

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from May 30, 2014

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  A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.36, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Motivational, Inspiring, Travel

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Jul 23, 2012

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• I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Freedom, Mistress, Breaking Rules

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'

  Jim Rohn

  Freedom, Order, Giving

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 17, 2016

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