All Quotes By Tag: Freedom
“It’s the ‘everyday’ experiences we encounter along the journey to who we wanna be that will define who we are when we get there.”
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“…freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.”
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“He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.”
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“No one is ever going to give you something that they’re too afraid to even claim for themselves. People don’t know themselves, so they don’t like to see other people figure it out and live their lives in ways that they themselves cannot. So they try to box you in, and limit you, so they don’t feel inadequate. But you don’t need their approval- the only person who ever, ever limits you is yourself.”
“Free will is the cutting edge of Creation, don’t you see? The word spontaneity derives from the Latin sponte, meaning ‘of one’s free will.’ Spontaneity is the impulse, the purest expression of freedom, and the impulse wants to do whatever it wants to do. But you are afraid of what others think, others who are just as afraid of what you think, and so you pussyfoot along the perimeter of the free-will zone, wilting like a wallflower.”
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“Jealous of the crazy gay kid. That doesn’t sound right.””Hey, Sol,” she said, her tone getting serious for a second. “Those are two things about you out of a million. Don’t box yourself in.”
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“Life is not a competition. No one has to lose for someone else to win. A true blessing blesses everyone.”
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“Mankind were intended to be happy… that government being only the means of securing freedom and happiness to the people, whenever it deviates from this end, and their freedom and happiness are in great danger of being irrevocably lost, the government is no longer entitled to their allegiance. (“The Principles of an American Whig”-1777)”
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“If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening …”
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“You’re free, too,” she said. “That’s what I came to tell you, because I suspect you don’t know it. You’re as free as I am.”
“Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.”
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“Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.”
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“If you didn’t earn something, it’s not worth flaunting.”