Liberating Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• 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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• It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did.

  Leslie Jamison

  Writing, Character, Plot

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• I have heard Shree Rajneesh and have been inspired by his talks. His works are sublimne and seek to liberate the soul of humans. Indeed his presentation is unique, his goal is great and his success in liberating each person from the mafia surrounding the soul is rewarding reading. The message that he had to deliver must reach everywhere. Ultimately salvation comes when one attains freedom from oneself. That, I believe, is the consummation which exposure to Osho may help.

  V. R. Krishna Iyer

  Believe, Reading, Unique

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• The military progress both in Syria and in Iraq has been remarkable since President Donald Trump's inauguration. We have continued to liberate areas. We are making tremendous progress in liberating Mosul in Iraq, working with coalition forces, we're moving to position to liberate Raqqa.

  Rex W. Tillerson

  Military, Moving, Progress

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-wheeling, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence -- putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply -- if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise. I think you may no longer be content with plays that you can't remember halfway down the block.

  Edward Albee

  Fun, Block, Thinking

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• Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Mean, Tolerance, Movement

  Herbert Marcuse (2007). “The Essential Marcuse: Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse”, p.50, Beacon Press

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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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• But there is a compelling reason to develop a personal strategy for living. Rejecting issues, which often feels liberating, is actually enslavement. Those who do not produce their own solutions must be using someone else's. As Nietzsche warned 'he who cannot obey himself will be commanded'.

  Michael Foley

  Issues, Compelling Reason, Strategy

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• Sometimes identity can be your salvation. It can be liberating to find your place in the world, but at some point, identity can hold you back.

  Justin Simien

  Identity, World, Sometimes

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• By accepting our aging and letting its lessons broaden us internally, we become calmer in the face of the body's inevitable deterioration. Becoming less attached to our outer appearance is so liberating.

  Wendy Lustbader

  Lessons, Faces, Becoming

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• It's liberating to live at home during the week, but on the weekend it's like, Jesus Christ, how much History Channel can one human being watch?

  John Rzeznik

  Jesus, Home, Weekend

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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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• 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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• Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

  H. G. Wells

  Essence, Quality, Hinduism

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• As far as the underground liberation movement, it won't have any impact at all because they don't really care about those laws. Their activities - sabotaging, liberating animals - are already illegal so just adding one more law won't make much difference.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Impact, Law

  "Analysis: Bill targets animal activists". Article by Steve Mitchell, www.upi.com. November 14, 2006.

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• I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk. Let me give simple, responsible reasons: (1) It was a cakewalk last time; (2) they've become much weaker; (3) we've become much stronger; and (4) now we're playing for keeps.

  Kenneth Adelman

  Military, Believe, Simple

  "Cakewalk In Iraq". www.washingtonpost.com. February 13, 2002.

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• With directing, your day is done. When you hit seven o'clock, it's "Cut." That's what it is. For better or worse, that's what you've got and you have to make that work, and there's something incredibly liberating about that because you can't torture yourself. You have to focus on the moment, and you have to embrace every second and opportunity and maximize that, whereas with writing, there's no imperative there. You just amble along.

  Dan Mazer

  Writing, Cutting, Opportunity

  Source: collider.com

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• It's as interesting to me as someday getting to play in some beautiful period piece where the costumes are from a completely different era. This feels as extreme as that, and that's really liberating. It's really liberating to just go 180 from what my life is like. I love that! I love not having to think about clothes. I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, "It would be so much easier!"

  Taylor Schilling

  Beautiful, School, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm really happy in my own skin. There's a lot of judgment that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less. 'I would sometimes say in my twenties, 'oh, I couldn't care less', but I think I probably did. Now I genuinely don't and that's a lovely, liberating thing to experience.

  Kate Winslet

  Eye, Thinking, Media

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• Life goes on and the truth changes; this just happens to be the way life is. What was once true is often no longer true just a little while later. Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.

  Brad Blanton

  Yesterday, Jail, Bullshit

  Brad Blanton (1996). “Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth”, Dell

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• We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Discovery, World, Physics

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• A curse on him who begins in gentleness. He shall finish in insipidity and cowardice, and shall never step foot in the great liberating current of Christianity.

  Andre Trocme

  Feet, Steps, Christianity

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• Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.

  Ronnie Apteker

  Beautiful, Art, Book

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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