Quotes about Freedom

it is absolutely vital that we acknowledge that love, grace, and humanity can be rejected. From the most subtle rolling of the eyes to the most violent degradation of another human, we are terrifyingly free to do as we please. God gives us what we want, and if that's hell, we can have it. We have that kind of freedom, that kind of choice. We are that free.

The world is free to be a world. It's free to be beautiful and safe, and it's free to break your heart in a thousand ways. That free.

He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain and name him, especially the one called "Christianity.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

For God himself the height of feeling free Must have been His success in simile When at sight of you He thought of me.

Spare me the setting of my fate to music.

I'm glad of any political freedom they give me, but what I'm interested in is not political freedom. I'm interested in the liberties I take.

Such is the uncaged progress of the bear. The world has room to make a bear feel free; The universe seems cramped to you and me. Man acts more like the poor bear in a cage, That all day fights a nervous inward rage, His mood rejecting all his mind suggests. He paces back and forth and never rests The toenail click and shuffle of his feet, The telescope at one end of his beat, And at the other end the microscope, Two instruments of nearly equal hope, And in conjunction giving quite a spread.

An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.