Quotes about Freedom
Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.
— John Donne
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.
— John F. Kennedy
Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.
— Deepak Chopra
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
— Viktor E. Frankl
The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one's freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given circumstance.
— Viktor E. Frankl
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination do not become the slave of your model.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
— Vincent Van Gogh
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
— Virginia Woolf
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
— Virginia Woolf