Being Free Quotes - Page 3

• Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

  Randall Terry

  Fall, Foundation, Ten Commandments

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• Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

  Joyce Maynard

  Might, Salinger, Standards

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• Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.

  Brett Somers

  Giving, Acting, Connections

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• I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.

  Molly Ringwald

  Mistake, Teenager, Twenties

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• Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.

  Jupiter Hammon

  Hurt, Slave, Idle

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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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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• Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

  Vernon Howard

  Freedom, Numbers, Measurement

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• The greatest luxury is being free.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Luxury

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• There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Freedom, Two, Kind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Ambition, Air

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• Perhaps most people in the world aren’t trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It’s all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real pickle. You’d better remember that. People actually prefer not being free?

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Thinking, People

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• Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free.

  Janette Oke

  Freedom, Servant, Knows

  Janette Oke (1993). “The faithful father”, Bethany House Pub

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• You have nothing to lose. All that you can lose is your tension and your worry, your little-mindedness, fear, and anxiety. And fear and anxiety, tension and worry in the small, little mind will keep the mind from being free, will keep the mind from experiencing its infinite potential, will keep the mind from becoming more powerful on this planet.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Powerful, Worry, Anxiety

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• I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love, Powerful, Thinking

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• Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world's expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being.

  Pope John Paul II

  Freedom, Justice, Expectations

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• True liberty consists not merely in being free from something, but also in being free for something.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Liberty

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• Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.

  Merle Haggard

  Song, Believe, Fighting

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• One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

  Franklin A. Thomas

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

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• The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.

  Russell Means

  Freedom, Way, Worthwhile

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• I want to be outspoken! I want to say my opinions and I hope they’re taken in the right way. I don’t want to stop being free ... and I won’t...

  Angelina Jolie

  Taken, Want, Way

  "Angelina Jolie on Her Insecurities & Finding Happiness". Interview with Hilary Rowland, urbanette.com. August 10, 2016.

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• Being free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality.

  Deepak Chopra

  Freedom, Acceptance, Reality

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• I try and direct environmentally . So that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'Action'. So that they can literally be swimming in the warm water and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.

  Cameron Crowe

  Swimming, Race, People

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• He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

  Oscar Wilde

  Want

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, Lulu.com

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• For a shaman, all things considered taboo get ripped apart, and one feels the satisfaction of being freed from agony through vituperation and laughter. Hence, shamanism could be said to have developed a means to tackle and override the barriers, oppression, and despair that tend to obstruct life.

  Hyon Gyon

  Laughter, Mean, Despair

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Ideas, Bears, I Can

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.140, W. W. Norton & Company

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