Being Free Quotes - Page 4

• Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to pay whatever it may cost.

  Oswald Chambers

  Commitment, Mean, Cost

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.

  Izzeldin Abuelaish

  Essentials, Dignity, Ability

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• I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited.

  Lana Del Rey

  Children, Different, Half

  Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

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• No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.

  Benjamin Constant

  Law, Freedom Of Speech, Influence

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• The American people are being victimized more than any free market would warrant.

  Gordon Smith

  People, Free Market, Warrants

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• We kind of have to rewrite our own stories and our own ways of being free.

  Morgan Parker

  Way, Stories, Kind

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.

  Cornel West

  Mind, Speak, Enough

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Mean, Deception, Suffering

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.442, Discovery House

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• So much of the world and the systems that we live within are made to keep us from feeling like we're free. The way that black women in American came to be is just diametrically opposed to being free.

  Morgan Parker

  Feelings, Black, World

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.

  Laozi

  Names, Simplicity, Desire

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• Suppose you are drinking a cup of tea. When you hold your cup, you may like to breathe in, to bring your mind back to your body, and you become fully present. And when you are truly there, something else is also there - life, represented by the cup of tea. In that moment you are real, and the cup of tea is real. You are not lost in the past, in the future, in your projects, in your worries. You are free from all of these afflictions. And in that state of being free, you enjoy your tea. That is the moment of happiness, and of peace.

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Drinking, Past

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• I am looking to have a place under the sun for our new generations to live in peace far away from repression, from terrorism, to live as human beings freely in this free world. That is what I am looking for. I am not asking for the moon. I am asking for the United Nations legality to be implemented.

  Yasser Arafat

  Moon, Generations, Asking

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• God did not create the evil. He established the laws which are always good because he is good. The spirits would have been completely happy had they faithfully observed the law since the beginning. But, being free to make choices, the spirits have not properly obeyed them so that evil come as a consequence of this unwillingness. One can then say that good corresponds to everything which is in accordance with God's law while evil is everything which opposes it.

  Allan Kardec

  Law, Evil, Choices

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• I like being free to take on any project that inspires me and to trust that the work will speak for itself.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  Inspire, Speak, Projects

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The problem has to be answered by means of art, because you can't blast them with bliss. Tat freaks them out even more. So instead, you have to have an artful way of approaching them. You do a dance for them, you get them to imagine being interconnected, and to imagine being free of their suffering, and not so self involved, through art that draws them out. Then you, and they, are all established in what's called a Buddha-verse, or Buddha-land

  Robert Thurman

  Art, Mean, Land

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• We should love the fact that we're not just getting one point of view. That we have this diversity in entertainment, and people are not scared to be themselves, and people are not scared to make people uncomfortable, and that's all part of it. That's all part of being free.

  Ice Cube

  Views, People, Diversity

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a lot with our founding fathers' principles of freedom.

  Dean Potter

  Father, Men, Flying

  Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com

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• Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.

  Maya Angelou

  People, Trying, Able

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Design, United, Higher

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works”, HarperCollins UK

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• I was always sort of ahead of myself in some way, shape or form and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being of being free and having a creative agency, so to speak.

  Mahershala Ali

  Dream, Agency, Creative

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Islam is one of the fastest-growing faiths within America, and America needs to show that we're not anti-Islam. We are for, for people being free and having opportunity everywhere, that... We did that in Bosnia, we did that in Kosovo, we did that in numerous other places in the world.

  William J. Clinton

  Opportunity, America, People

  "A Conversation with Former President Bill Clinton". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. July 7, 2004.

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• No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Ignorant, Liberty, Too Much

  L'Ami du peuple newspaper, No. 559, August 27, 1791.

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• There is value in being free and spontaneous but the greatest power comes from seeing and using what results from that freedom.

  Carole Katchen

  Power, Spontaneous, Results

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• These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.

  Bill McKibben

  Fighting, Technology, Together

  "Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age". Book by Bill McKibben, April 2, 2003.

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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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