Liberating Quotes - Page 14

• Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, really real and liberating ... When a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention.

  Adyashanti

  Powerful, Real, Heart

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• It's incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It's about understanding myself. Sometimes I'll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It's become part of my routine.

  Shakira

  Caring, Talking, Understanding

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• The mindless junk of your past crowds out opportunities and sets pointless limitations. Move out the junk, and you create room for the rest of your life. Ultimately, it's not just a question of tidying your house; it's a question of liberating your heart.

  Merlin Mann

  Success, Moving, Heart

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• Communities need to hear the liberating power of the gospel

  Brad Bird

  Community, Needs

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• For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.

  John Brunner

  Impact, Data, Truth Is

  John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.141, Open Road Media

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• If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being. Some recent studies show that people who are taught to forgive become 'less angry, more hopeful, less depressed, less anxious and less stressed,' which leads to greater physical well-being. Another of these studies concludes 'that forgiveness ... is a liberating gift [that] people can give to themselves.'

  James E. Faust

  Hurt, Self Esteem, Heart

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• Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom they gain--the property-less working class possess nothing but their title as human beings. Thus they can liberate themselves only by liberating all humanity.

  Peter Singer

  Winning, Rights, Class

  Peter Singer (2000). “Marx: A Very Short Introduction”, p.30, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.

  Max De Pree

  Humane Way, People, Way

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy.

  Noah Baumbach

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• These individuals are tyrants, and so they hate democracy. They are bigots, zealots, and persecutors, and so they hate Americas freedom tolerance, and respect for all people. The terrorists of Sept. 11 live and flourish in darkness. They cannot survive in the liberating and inspirational sunlight of American freedom and democracy.

  Ted Olson

  Hate, Tyrants, People

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• Zen goes directly to your own experience of the oneness of the universe, of your interconnectedness with all things. You learn to distrust whatever you clung to in your old sense of separation, and that realization can be the most liberating thing in your life, a freedom beyond anything you could have imagined.

  Jean Smith

  Freedom, Learning, Oneness

  Jean Smith (2007). “The Beginner's Guide to Zen Buddhism”, p.8, Harmony

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• It's much more liberating as a artist to feel like you can approach each page and each panel with the way that inspires you the most. I think the thing that bogs down a lot of artists is that you're kind of stuck drawing in a style you've developed.

  Daniel Clowes

  Artist, Thinking, Drawing

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being.

  Franz Kafka

  Believe, Mean, Liberty

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy. When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy. It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has a liberating effect on others.

  Adyashanti

  Taken, Mean, Responsibility

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• Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.

  Indira Gandhi

  Cutting, Class, Age

  Indira Gandhi (1985). “Selected thoughts of Indira Gandhi: a book of quotes”

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• It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

  David Whyte

  Loss, Thinking, Might

  "The Poetic Narrative Of Our Times" by David Whyte, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.

  Thandie Newton

  Blessed, Ego, Feels

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sports, Art, Literature

  "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely'". www.nytimes.com. April 25, 1971.

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• So, to get to play somebody who was insisting on it, in spite of all the evidence was very liberating and exciting. It went quite deep. I suppose I reference a kindness and humility that I would have seen in my parents' generation, a little bit more than now.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Kindness, Humility, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• Sin is powerful, but not as powerful as the liberating power of grace.

  Paul David Tripp

  Powerful, Grace, Sin

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2015

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• I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they're much more liberating because you don't really have to apply a very strict logic.

  Gore Verbinski

  Thinking, Facts, Logic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My experience protesting with Mojave Dolphins, and the other wonderful animal activists, can be described in a few words: inspiring, motivational and purposeful. The execution of the protests is incredible; the signs are amazing, creative and eye catching. You can really feel the unity in the group, running like a well oiled machine towards the goal of liberating our captive animal friends.

  Camille

  Running, Eye, Animal

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• When the uncapped potential of a student meets the liberating art of a teacher, a miracle unfolds.

  Mary Hatwood Futrell

  Teacher, Art, Miracle

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• I love wandering. It's liberating to throw away the map and explore uncharted galleries. You'll nearly always stumble into something immensely interesting that way.

  Steve Cosson

  Interesting, Maps, Way

  "The Civilians’ Museum as Musical". Interview with Rachel Egan, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 12, 2014.

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• It's a different thing to just be a voice. It's liberating, on one hand, because you get to show up in sweatpants and with Doritos on your fingers, but on the other hand, it's limiting because it's just your voice.

  Adrian Pasdar

  Hands, Voice, Different

  Source: collider.com

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