7,738 Quotes About Freedom

I can see three ways to a truly compassionate fatherhood: grief, forgiveness, and generosity. Grief is the discipline of the heart that sees the sin of the world, and knows itself to be the sorrowful price of freedom without which love cannot bloom. I am beginning to see that much of praying is grieving. Grief allows me to see beyond my wall and realize the immense suffering that results from human lostness.

If you capture a Writer, the Writer in them will be dead. But if you let the Writer free, it can even Conquer the Rainbow for you!

With the way a lot of men function, I'd say "single" womyn are a threat to society. In fact, I'd go as single womyn are a threat to the system. As a womyn, if you aren't spending all your time looking for what you were socialized to, you're doing something productive. I'd say that scares a hell of a lot of people.

When we see one another as different aspects of ourselves—as ourselves experiencing a different situation and circumstance—we develop a love, a connection, and a unity that allows us to see beyond the various forms, as well as the various ways that someone may act out when they have forgotten their connection and their formless nature. If you look at another in this light, you will see a Being that is just like you, looking back at you

That which comes and goes is not real; quit chasing it. It doesn't matter. What haven't you lost? That is what‘s important. What always is? What is there in bliss and in misery? Who you are is always present and is always the same. That which doesn't come and go is real. That is where Freedom is found – nowhere else. (p. 31)

The job of a dream is to set you free.

This is what it means to become wild again: it’s to peel back the niceties of society. I have had too many of these: the niceties. I have become one myself: a person like a platitude, pleasing and flat.

That's my angle.' [Evelyn] patted the table. 'Phrases like uniformity and loss of individuality will please our hosts. They cherish those values. But the phrases will have the opposite effect at home. What do Americans' fear most? Loss of freedom. Loss of individuality.

Bodies are strange. Rather glad they're not my concern anymore.""Must be nice.""It really is.