Top 100 Be Free Quotes
#1. Nd I smile
and know
why people write music and paint and dance, lifted as if they can fly,
because this ache
crashing inside
needs to be free.
sometimes, love
becomes a melody
others hum for years.
Pat Mora
#3. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.
William, Saroyan
#4. To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.
Simone De Beauvoir
#5. Some nights she drowsed, but never for more than an hour. One day, Melisandre prayed, she would not sleep at all. One day she would be free of dreams.
George R R Martin
#6. If you want to be free of the wars of the world, begin by resolving the wars within you. If you want to see the world at peace, create peace within your mind.
Forrest Curran
#7. Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free.
Mazo De La Roche
#8. The past is what imprisons us. There are some things in this world that can never be undone. But they can be faced. They can be forgiven. And if we hold on to that, then there is a chance for us. A chance that someday. . .we will be free.
John Burley
#9. To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#10. You have to be able to tolerate what you don't necessarily like so you can be free.
Larry Flynt
#11. You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make
Franz Kafka
#12. Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#13. Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension.
Marcus Aurelius
#14. So many stories inside of me...fighting to be free....
Kim Morris
#15. I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.
Zooey Deschanel
#16. You know, most of this feminism business was nothing more than white American women telling non-white women what to do and how to do it, with this patronizing if-you-become-just-like-me-you'll-be-free bullshit,
Marlon James
#17. I'll teach you; I'll make you be free whether you want to be or not.
Aldous Huxley
#18. In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.
Al-Ghazali
#19. We are taught to be free from all vices of life. No greed, anger, lust, and attachment with any mundane things.
Girdhar Joshi
#20. I wanted, of course, for this bittersweet season to be over. I felt so strongly that when I finished the book, I'd be free to move into another season, one of life and celebration. But this is what I know now: they're the same thing, and that's all there is.
Shauna Niequist
#21. True ecstasy is stepping out of the bondage of the time-bound, space-bound world. We long to be free of fear and limitation. We hunger to experience our infinite, unbounded Self.
Deepak Chopra
#22. To be free, to rise and leave everything, without a glance back, behind. To say "yes".
Dag Hammarskjold
#23. I Write books for the little girl in the adult woman who some man told she was not good enough. Let us dismantle the notion that a woman cannot be free with her sexuality or that she needs a man to make her complete. This one is for the little girls with hearts on their sleeves.
Crystal Evans
#24. A wall is a defense of a country that values inaction. But a wall imprisons the people of a country as much as it protects them. That's why Balthasar had us go this way. He wanted me to see the error in the Tao. One can't be free without action.
Christopher Moore
#25. The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed.
Francis Ford Coppola
#26. To be free of fear is to be full of Love.
Adyashanti
#27. No man can claim to be free in real terms unless he is fully in control of his own destiny!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#28. It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers.
Bernhard Von Bulow
#29. No one of us can be free until we are all free.
Various
#30. If you do not forgive, you are demanding something your offender does not choose to give, even if it is only confession of what he did. This "ties" him to you and ruins boundaries. Let the dysfunctional family you came from go. Cut it loose, and you will be free.
Henry Cloud
#31. I went out into the woods for a few days. I just disconnected from everything and allowed myself to be free and be human. Because, that's what makes you really good, if you can be vulnerable, if you can be vulnerable on stage.
Lady Gaga
#32. Our efforts and actions produce results. These results come unlabeled. WE label them as success or failure based on OUR expectations. Don't forget that these labels are interchangeable if we allow ourselves to be free from an unhealthy attachment to our expectations.
Steve Maraboli
#33. You can never be free from limitation until you are willing to recognize that you and you alone are responsible for what you are. After you have passed infancy you are not a victim of anything but your own thinking.
Margery Wilson
#35. Well, it certainly is nice to be free from the threat of that lamp, my boy." Chains drew a last breath of smoke, then rubbed his dwindling sheaf of tobacco out against the roof stones. "Was it informing for the duke? Plotting to murder us?
Scott Lynch
#36. All these objections are raised by people, has God raised them? He who wants to be free (attain Liberation) has no objections, and he who wants to be bound, he will have nothing but objections. People become addicts of objections.
Dada Bhagwan
#39. My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me.
Lucille Kallen
#40. One cannot live in society and be free from society.
Vladimir Lenin
#41. I was not born with a hunger to be free, I was born free.
Nelson Mandela
#42. Your mind can destroy your life! Mind your mind; think well! Detoxify your thought and be free!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#43. The problem isn't that you haven't run far or fast enough. The problem is that you run at all. You must stop, amore, and face your demons. It is time for you to take your life into your own control and put these things down for good. That is how you will be free.
Ashly L. Evans
#44. The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile
it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.
John F. Kennedy
#45. I wanna be free. Free to scream, free to bathe, free to paint my toes all day.
Shanice
#46. Let us give up our longing for welfare, our love of war, and our desire to see the government control and shape our fellow citizens. We must come to imagine liberty again, and believe that it can be a reality. We must recapture what it means to be free.
Ron Paul
#47. It is within our competence to think and become bound, or to cease thinking and thus be free.
Ramana Maharshi
#48. Our trip to Moscow opens new prospects for peace in the Middle East. Our people want simple things: to be free and to have sovereignty. All this is impossible without an end to the occupation.
Khaled Mashal
#49. You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control.
Robert Ringer
#50. All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
Ramana Maharshi
#51. If we want to be free [get liberated], don't compete. As long as there is competition, the other person will hide his faults and we will hide ours.
Dada Bhagwan
#52. If he just had the decency to die silently yesterday, not squeal like a girl, I'd be free right now. Probably even doing some real job," she sneered.
Alexandra Engellmann
#53. Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.
Paul Ryan
#54. I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.
John F. Kennedy
#55. If I could live in a tiny dwelling on a rock in the ocean, surrounded by the waves of the sea and cut off from the sight and sound of everything else, I would still not be free of the cares of this passing world, or from the fear that somehow the love of money might still come and snatch me away.
Cuthbert
#56. The task of learning to be free requires learning to hear them, to question them, to pause and hear silence, to name them, and then to become the storyteller.
Rebecca Solnit
#57. I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.
Annie Lennox
#59. But again, pain hurt, no matter how it was inflicted. If Jesus could forgive Peter and everyone else who hurt and betrayed Him, she could too. "Okay, I forgive them." She meant the words. If this was what it would take to be free from the hurt, then it was worth the pain.
Kimberly Rose Johnson
#60. Flow
with whatever may happen + let your mind be free.
.. stay centered, by accepting whatever you're doing.
.. this is the ultimate.
Zhuangzi
#61. You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them. The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.
Ajahn Chah
#62. Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.
Ernest Gaines
#63. No rules. No Revision. No Doctrine up here. Dizzying. He could be free if he wanted. Among enemies. He could stay here and keep his memories. Or go away and keep his memories. Or go back home and cease to exist. "It feels wretched and wrong."
But it feels.
Aleksandr Voinov
#64. Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#65. I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
Agnes Varda
#66. It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.
Jasmine Guy
#67. [On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.
Mary Ruefle
#68. The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body, and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.
Swami Vivekananda
#69. Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.
Criss Jami
#70. It is great to be free physically, but it is greater to be free mentally.
Dean F. Bryson
#71. Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.
John Irving
#72. The republic stands for truth and honour. For all that is noblest in our race. By truth and honour, principle and sacrifice alone will Ireland be free.
Liam Mellows
#73. He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
Aristotle.
#74. The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
Barbara Boxer
#75. For someone's character to grow, it has to be free from internal attack. Falling down never stopped children from developing. But getting yelled at, criticized, and put down can stop them for life.
Henry Cloud
#76. But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.
H.L. Mencken
#77. How easy to be free. How strong we are when we have nothing to lose.
Ella Leya
#78. Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#79. A man needs a little madness, or else ... he never dares cut the rope and be free.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#80. The church should be a place where people can be free to say that they are sinners.
Timothy Keller
#81. The American government is premised on the theory that if the individual man is to be free, his ideas, his beliefs, his ideology, his philosophy, must be placed beyond the reach of government.
William O. Douglas
#82. Fight on land and sea All men want to be free If they don't never mind we'll abolish all mankind
Peter Weiss
#83. All that is left to bring you pain, are the memories. If you face those, you'll be free. You can't spend the rest of your life hiding from yourself; always afraid that your memories will incapacitate you, and they will if you continue to bury them.
J.D. Stroube
#84. The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.
Audre Lorde
#85. Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.
Edith Wharton
#86. Once you stop being locked into viewing reality from just one perspective, you will start to be free from habitual reactivity.
Stephen Richards
#87. More important than the HOW we achieve financial freedom, is the WHY. Find YOUR reasons why you want to be free and wealthy.
Robert Kiyosaki
#88. A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.
George Santayana
#89. Perhaps we all said the right things at the wrong time; perhaps we couldn't help it. Perhaps words became too heavy to haul, and the moment we let them loose was always the wrong one, but they needed to be free.
Mackenzi Lee
#90. Release your majestic mind, embrace your untamed inner spirit. Break free from captivity, avoid society.. You were born to be free.
Melanie Muller
#91. All your solutions are in people, and you can only be free when you love them
Sunday Adelaja
#92. To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#93. Be free of her sinus headaches which have caused her not to appear before us on TV lately, and that those headaches not have anything
Philip K. Dick
#94. We must invite the Cross to do its deadly work within before we can be free.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#95. True republicanism requires that every man shall have an equal chance- that every man shall be free to become as unequal as he can
Samuel Roberts Wells
#96. By Oppression's woes and pains!
By your sons in servile chains!
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free!
Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty's in every blow!
Let us do or die!
Robert Burns
#97. In terms of having to uphold something, I don't need any added pressure. I need to be free in the work.
Sonja Sohn
#98. For countries to succeed, for democracies to succeed, the women and men in those countries need to be free. Women and men need to know their rights.
Laura Bush
#99. I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.
Muhammad Yunus
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