7,738 Quotes About Freedom

No marketplace, free or otherwise, is good when it fails to consider the basic human state of needs at every stage of life.

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

Happiness like unhappiness is a proactive choice. We are free to choose our responses to any situation. The choice is ours. We are really the sum total of the choices we make; the ball is always in our court.

Voting gives us an opportunity to choose from options that were chosen for us.

Did she now know what it was like to have so little agency? To be faced with such cruel options it was as if there was no choice at all?

I am offered the Grand Inquisitor's choice. Will you choose freedom without happiness, or happiness without freedom? The only answer one can make, I think, is: No.

I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. There are no superficial hangups.

Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar in the freedom of desirelessness. Let go. Let Be. See through everything and be free, complete, luminous, at home -- at ease.

You shouldn't blame others for the conditions you endure; we each have the freedom to follow which path we desire in life.