7,738 Quotes About Freedom

Life was to me a horse to whose motion one yields, but only after having trained theanimal to the utmost.

To live in a world of female power—mutual power—felt like a desirable dream to Zee. Having power meant that the world was like a pasture with the gate left open, and that there was nothing stopping you, and you could run and run.

It doesn't matter if you're inside or outside the closet. Either way, it's impossible to know if you can ever really be free.

Jesus makes it clear that the way to God is the same as the way to a new childhood. The innocence that is reached through conscious choices. The Beatitudes offer me the simplest route for the journey home, back into the house of my Father. And along this route I will discover the joys of the second childhood: comfort, mercy, and an ever clearer vision of God. It's a place where I can live in freedom without obsessions and compulsions.

Abandonment stings, even when it means freedom.[Hadley Baxter]

The destruction of many nations is mentioned in the Qur'an, the reason for the destruction of any of them was to give up fasting, Hajj, Zakat ... but under-weighing, bribery, not doing justice, eating someone's right, mixing, Someone had to be killed unjustly. To put it simply, it was a matter of rights of worship.

We are only able to disrespect, mistreat, and harm one another when we forget that the other person is us; when we only see the objects of form, and not the subjective Consciousness that lies within. Lust, greed, violence, selfishness—all arise from perceiving others in terms of their individual differences, seeing them only as bodies, and what we can get from them as bodies, rather than acknowledging the Being that lies within the body.

A big person who is allowed to "breath" and having a lower level of thinking, will perform better than a very bright (small) person who is not allowed the same freedom. Physical strength also strengthens the mind.

Until all of us are free, none of us is free.