All Quotes By Tag: Freedom
“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.”
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“And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own.”
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“You cannot hinder someone’s free will, that’s the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.”
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“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.”
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“The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.”
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“Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.”
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“The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.”
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“Only a mind free of impediment is capable of grasping the chaotic beauty of the world. This is our greatest asset.”
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“Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.”
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“Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.”
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“I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.”
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“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.”In fact,’ said Mustapha Mond, ‘you’re claiming the right to be unhappy.’ ‘All right then,’ said the Savage defiantly, ‘I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.”Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.’ There was a long silence. ‘I claim them all,’ said the Savage at last.Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. ‘You’re welcome,” he said.”
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“Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.”
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“Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.”
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“If you’ve got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.”