Being Free Quotes - Page 5

• My liberty depends on you being free, too.

  Barack Obama

  Liberty, Depends

  Remarks by the President in Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 26, 2015.

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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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• One of the symptoms of being free is you begin to dream.

  Danny Silk

  Dream, Symptoms

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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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• 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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• 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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• Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Generosity, Bounty

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell (1821). “Poems and Plays”, p.311

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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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• A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Mean, Everyday, Ease

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Real, Likes, Bondage

  "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p. 114, 1973.

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• Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

  Angela Merkel

  Mean, Doe

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• Dancing inspires my music. Having your girlfriends all together and just being free and happy.

  Bella Thorne

  Girlfriend, Dancing, Inspire

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.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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• Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction of barter: we surrender our sense of human dignity, our judgement, or moral and aesthetic sense for pride. If there is pride in being free, we are ready to die for liberty. If there is pride to be derived from an identification with a leader, we grovel in the dust before a Napoléon, Hitler or Stalin and are ready to die for him. If there is a distinction in suffering we search for martyrdom as for hidden treasure.

  Eric Hoffer

  Pride, Self, Dust

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• Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.

  William Barclay

  Christian, Mean, Doe

  William Barclay (1961). “The Letters of James and Peter”, p.240, Westminster John Knox Press

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• It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Freedom, Goal, Facts

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.18, Macmillan

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• Everyone talks about freedom. All around the world different people, different races, different countries are fighting for freedom. But what is freedom? In America we speak of living in a free country. But are we really free? Are we free to be who we really are? The answer is no, we are not free. True freedom has to do with the human spirit-it is freedom to be who we really are. Who stops us from being free? We blame the government, we blame the weather, we blame our parents, we blame religion, we blame God. Who really stops us from being free? We stop ourselves.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Country, Freedom, Fighting

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• As long as you are free, you are free to select and choose alternatives, provided that you are willing to accept the responsibility for being free. And after you've tried your alternatives, and they don't work as you would wish, don't blame me. Blame your choice. Try another alternative.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Freedom, Responsibility, Long

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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