Liberating Quotes - Page 7

• There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers

  Steve Almond

  Children, Holiday, Stranger

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.30, Algonquin Books

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• The liberating force of technology the instrumentalization of things turns into ... the instrumentalization of man.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Technology, Men, Force

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.163, Routledge

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• Focusing on getting the most out of every situation is stressful. Focusing on giving the most in every situation is liberating.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Giving, Stressful

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jan 08, 2015

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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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• Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.

  David Shi

  Simple, Addiction, Inner Peace

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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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• 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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• Failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

  Sara Blakely

  Trying, Outcomes, Way

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• People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need in my life is to be liberated into feeling bad. Not sad. I have plenty of sad. What I need is a place where I can spray anger in sparks like a gnarled piece of electrical cable. Just be mad at stuff and soak in the helplessness.

  John Darnielle

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

  John Darnielle (2008). “Black Sabbath's Master of Reality”, p.75, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Knowledge is sacred and the choice to be informed or merely entertained in today's world is a very revealing test of the times.  Expanding your mind to penetrate the deeper meanings of life is not only liberating, it is crucial to your well-being, for knowledge is power, and how you use your power inevitably determines the course of your personal and collective life.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Choices, Mind, Use

  Barbara Marciniak (2010). “Path of Empowerment: New Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos”, p.3, New World Library

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• The first step to truly living a good and fearless life, is accepting responsibility for your actions. Accepting what part you had in any situation. Difficult, to say the least, but liberating.

  Jann Arden

  Responsibility, Fearless, Firsts

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• I've never done any advertising because I feel I am in a position of trust, and that has been very liberating

  Delia Smith

  Trust, Done, Advertising

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• The lesson we have yet to learn from dogs, that could sustain us, is that having no apprehension of the past or future is not limiting but liberating.

  Susan Orlean

  Dog, Past, Pet

  Susan Orlean (2012). “Rin Tin Tin: The Life and Legend of the World's Most Famous Dog”, p.235, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• But no sooner had morning broken than he took hold of his whip and ceremoniously stepped out to address his slaves. Each blow was liberating, it was like unshaking proof of the great lie of God's existence.

  Juhani Peltonen

  Morning, Atheist, Lying

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• This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.

  Margaret Halsey

  Years, Ideas, Next

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'.

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Evil, Chimera

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• I believe, if done correctly, eliminating Saddam and liberating Iraq could be the ‘Normandy Invasion’ or ‘fall of the Berlin Wall’ of our generation...the Iraqi people are eager to be rid of Saddam, and there is equally encouraging evidence that republican principles could thrive there.

  Pete Hegseth

  Wall, Believe, Fall

  "Meet Kagan’s Astroturf Military Attackers" by Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. June 30, 2010.

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• In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Long, States

  "Tomorrow Is Now" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (pp. 119-120), 1963.

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• Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind.

  Robert Fisk

  Two, Tanks, Kind

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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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• 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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• I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it. By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Children, Grief, Years

  "Q&A with Kris Kristofferson". Interview with Andy Langer, www.esquire.com. February 27, 2006.

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• If Satan has blinded and bound men and women, how can we ever see souls saved? This is where you and I enter the picture. Spoiling the goods of the strong man has to do with liberating those whom Satan has blinded and is keeping bound. . . . This is where prayer comes in.

  Theodore Epp

  Strong, Prayer, Men

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• Desert Storm II would be in a walk in the park... The case for 'regime change' boils down to the huge benefits and modest costs of liberating Iraq.

  Kenneth Adelman

  Iraq, Storm, Benefits

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