Quotes about Freedom

The cold place within me that had frozen and constricted my heart was gone. My heart was like a lotus, and in that little space there was room enough for Osia Theola, for all of Cyprus. For all the stars in all of the galaxies. For all those bubbles which were island universes.

Christendom has also retreated from freedom. In the much talk today about human rights, we forget that our human rights are derived from the Christian faith. In Christian terms every single human being, whoever he or she may be, sick or well, clever or foolish, beautiful or ugly, every single human being is loved of his Creator, who has, as the Gospels tell us, counted the hairs of his head.

You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.

Indecision is a decision not to use life's first gift to you — the power of choice.

You are the actor, director, producer, and scriptwriter of the play called 'Your Life' and you can change the play anytime.

Success is evident from the joy you experience. Be willing to let go of anything that takes your joy away.

Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality.

I wanted to go free, to be liberated once and for all from these two enemies, the body and the soul. I wanted to be a cloud. To be a stone on the surface of the moon.

The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.

It is only through death to the world that we can be freed from its spirit.

It is indeed the deepest happiness of heaven to be so free from self that whatever is said of us or done to us is swallowed up in the thought that Jesus is all and we are nothing.

A secret in his mouth, is like a wild bird put into a cage; whose door no sooner opens, but 'tis out.