Liberating Quotes - Page 5

• For much of my life I floundered under the excuse of "nobody's perfect," the liberating and over-used phrase that affords guys like me the freedom to pile up sins in a careless and unchecked way. Ironically, being perfect is precisely what we are called to be!

  Tarek Saab

  Perfect, Guy, Catholic

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• Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Inspiring, Creative, Albums

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• I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in for a scene or two and do your thing. But I find it frustrating if I'm just doing little bits here and there for too long.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Character, Thinking, Two

  "Brendan Gleeson: the character actor who steals the show". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2010.

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• When you do something just because it is needed, you involve yourself totally without it meaning anything to you, then action becomes liberating.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

  George Voinovich

  Peace, Iraq, Legacy

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• The only initiation which I advocate and which I look for with all the ardor of my Soul, is that by which we are able to enter into the Heart of God within us, and there make an Indissoluble Marriage, which makes us the Friend and Spouse of the Repairer … there is no other way to arrive at this Holy Initiation than for us to delve more and more into the depth of our Soul and to not let go of the prize until we have succeeded in liberating its lively and vivifying origin.

  Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

  Letting Go, Heart, Soul

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• What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

  Krista Tippett

  Compassion, Rising, Problem

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• Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.

  Christopher Bram

  Sex, Gay, Pills

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• Plus, doing a zombie movie is quite liberating. It's fun not to take myself seriously all the time.

  Sarah Polley

  Fun, Zombie, Plus

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• I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course.

  Sara Blakely

  Thinking, Way, Perceive

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• I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don't have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at my age I can say no to anything now if I don't want to do it. What a liberating word.

  Bel Kaufman

  Age, Want, Firsts

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• The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life under the Greek junta - the steady drip of daily coercion - with an exacting empathy. In particular, her depiction of love under tyranny - by turns hesitant, furtive and liberating - is as astute as it is moving.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Moving, Empathy, Political

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• The crucified but risen Jesus appears in the believing, assembled community of the church. That this sense of the risen, living Jesus has faded in many [churches] can be basically blamed on the fact that our churches are insufficiently 'communities' of God. Where the church of Jesus Christ lives, and lives a liberating life in the footsteps of Jesus, the resurrection faith undergoes no crisis. On the other hand, it is better not to believe in God than to believe in a God who minimizes human beings, holds them under and oppresses them, with a view to a better world to come.

  Edward Schillebeeckx

  Jesus, Believe, Hands

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• It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.

  Bill Paxton

  People, Naked, Hundred

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.

  Donald Hall

  Form, Binding, Verses

  Donald Hall (2004). “Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected”, p.34, University of Michigan Press

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• Rejoice in liberating moments of victory when conflicts, trials, and adversity fall momentarily under your command.

  Wes Fesler

  Fall, Adversity, Victory

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• I'm happiest on set because I'm not myself. I'm someone else. The moustache, the dinner jacket. It's not me. You're always this sort of double, and it's liberating. Imagine being stuck with yourself... all those doubts.

  Jean Dujardin

  Mustache, Doubt, Dinner

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

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• Whether manufactured by black, white, brown or yellow hands, a widget remains a widget – and it will be bought anywhere if the price and quality are right. The market is a more powerful and more reliable liberating force than government can ever be.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Powerful, Government, Hands

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• Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the given material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

  Earle Brown

  Art, Degrees, Cages

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-century Music: A Continuing Symposium". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, ‎Joseph Darby, ‎Matthew Santa, 1996.

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• 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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• Each moment is a moment of choice ~ a time to leave the old, the limited, the restrained, and the contracted for the new, the unbound, and the liberating potential that expands before you.

  Gary Zukav

  Choices, Moments, Unbound

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jul 02, 2012

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• I get to shift multiple markets. I get to shift economies. It's extremely liberating. I breathe differently.

  Shai Agassi

  Breathe, Economy, Multiple

  "Driven: Shai Agassi's audacious plan to put electric cars on the road" by Daniel Roth, www.wired.com. August 18, 2008.

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• It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms the other as other. It does not possess and manipulate another as mine.

  John Powell

  Love Is, Giving, Self Love

  John Powell (1989). “Through Seasons of the Heart”, Thomas More Association

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• Jamming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and joyful thing to do.

  Kalle Lasn

  Night, Coins, Honest

  "Culture Jam: How To Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - And Why We Must". Book by Kalle Lasn, 1999.

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• Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my lifewas the day I realized that I know longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That's enormously liberating and freeing, and it's the only way to live your life and do your business.

  Cindy Gallop

  Thinking, People, Giving

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