Quotes about Freedom

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don't hold back, don't analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.

The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.

eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.

It's miserable living someone else's life, and it is downright suffocating to live beneath your potential.

Israel's wandering in the wilderness wasn't just because [God] was angry with them. His continuous moving with them in the wilderness was because He wanted time to get out of them what their years of being slaves had put in them. And the best way to show anyone who you really are is to constantly be in their presence.

The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.