Top 100 Free To Be Quotes
#1. To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
Indira Gandhi
#2. What's truly important
and what I find myself forgetting and having to relearn
is that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and to express myself.
Kat Von D.
#3. You have been saved through a dying sacrifice, so you are free to be a living one.
Timothy J. Keller
#4. So can you tell me exactly what 'freedom' means? If I am not free to be as twisted as I wanna be?
Disturbed
#5. Work at not needing approval from anyone and you will be free to be who you really are.
Nachman Of Breslov
#6. For a moment, upon waking, he had NO idea at all who he was. It was a tremendously liberating feeling, as if he were free to be whatever he wanted to be: he could be anyone at all, able to try on any identity; he could be a man or a woman; a rat or a bird, a monster or a god.
Neil Gaiman
#7. The freedom to be happy restricts human freedom if you are not free to be not happy.
Maggie Nelson
#9. For the first time I'm free to be myself.
Ed Balls
#10. This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied by some poet, but stands in the will of God, and so is free to be known by all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#11. I let go of all expectations. People, places and things are free to be themselves, and I am free to be me.
Louise Hay
#12. If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities ... the expression of love ... then life itself loses its meaning.
Harvey Milk
#13. Am I not peaceful? We want to be free - completely free. Free to be free. We want to be left alone.
Sukarno
#14. A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself
to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart
Leo Buscaglia
#15. A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.
C.J. Cherryh
#16. I believe that the purpose of parenting is to raise children true to their natures so they can grow up feeling honored, confident, and free to be themselves.
Carol Tuttle
#17. I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.
Anthony De Mello
#18. Alive. This music rocks
me. I drive the interstate,
watch faces come and go on either
side. I am free to be sung to;
I am free to sing. This woman
can cross any line.
Joy Harjo
#19. Now it was done. He was free of Xanth forever. Free to make his own life, without being ridiculed or mothered or tempted. Free to be himself.
Bink put his face in his hands and cried.
Piers Anthony
#20. Those who Discover the High Sea are the ones who are FREE to Be what they Want to Be.-RVM
R.v.m.
#21. They were free to be what they wanted to be, and what they wanted to be was nothing.
Michael Davidow
#22. Change is scary. But you're not required to be the same person you were ten years ago, ten weeks ago, ten days ago. Hell, you don't even have to be the person you were ten minutes ago. You're free to be whoever the hell you want.
Julie Johnson
#23. Holding you close to my heart makes me feel special.
In this moment, I am free to be me.
Zarina Bibi
#24. If you're female, and you want to express your femininity, you're actually demonized in the 'Free To Be ... You And Me' generation.
Jill Soloway
#25. We are free to be the authors of our own lives, but we don't know what kind of lives we want to 'write.
Barry Schwartz
#26. Human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create.
John Pugsley
#27. Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.
John Knowles
#28. Only you know who you were born to be and you need to be free to be that person.
Ruby Rose
#29. You don't have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.
Joyce Meyer
#30. It is a very wonderful experience indeed, when, at fifty years old, you suddenly discover that for the first time in your life, you are really free to be yourself.
Monica Baldwin
#31. The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.
Edward Norton
#32. The single aim of my life is that every child is:
free to be a child,
free to grow and develop,
free to eat, sleep, see daylight,
free to laugh and cry,
free to play,
free to learn, free to go to school, and above all, free to dream.
Kailash Satyarthi
#33. The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about this effect on other people.
May Sarton
#34. We can no longer afford to consider air and water common property, free to be abused by anyone without regard to the consequences. Instead, we should begin now to treat them as scarce resources, which we are no more free to contaminate than we are free to throw garbage into our neighbor's yard.
Richard M. Nixon
#35. I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
Muhammad Ali
#36. I am proud to tell Hollywood that I am a Christian. For the first time I am now free to be myself.
Gary Busey
#37. Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.
Lester Bowie
#38. To not judge is to be like a peach. We shrink our space by giving up controlling others. Instead, we focus on controlling ourselves. We set others free to be who they are.
John Kuypers
#39. You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
Chief Joseph
#40. I just love my age. I really do. I feel like once I hit 40, I felt free to be me.
Anne Alexander
#41. because Jesus was strong for me, I was free to be weak; because Jesus won for me, I was free to lose; because Jesus was someone, I was free to be no one; because Jesus was extraordinary, I was free to be ordinary; because Jesus succeeded for me, I was free to fail.
Tullian Tchividjian
#42. To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
Robert Henri
#43. God is not at a loss when He moves to bring us back to Himself. He can woo or whip. He can draw or drive. He can work rapidly or slowly, as He pleases. In other words, He is free to be God! And in His own way, at His own pace, He brings us back.
Tom Wells
#44. We are born for the happiness. We are living for the happiness. To be happy we have to be morally free. To be morally free we have to treat the humanity with uncompromising sincerity.
Debasish Mridha
#45. People say I'm a feminist, but in truth, I am an equalist. I believe that everyone, male and female, should be free to be whom and what they are. Not to fit into some tight cultural box.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#46. One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
Alan W. Watts
#48. Biblical spirituality means powerlessness, living without embellishment or pretense, free to be faithful in the gospel, and free from anxiety about effectiveness or similar illusions of success.
William Stringfellow
#49. We can be honest and transparent about our sins and failures because we aren't the ones fighting. Jesus fought for us. This is good news because it means we are free to be messed up.
Jefferson Bethke
#50. What is the key that unlocks me to be free to be who I want to be? Answer: There is no key. Just choose to be.
Truth Devour
#51. Soon, my Egyptian princess. Soon, I'll be free to be with you.
Hugh Howey
#52. Donald Trump is a fool, but he is not free to be a dangerous fool in Britian.
Jack Dromey
#53. The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision.
James P. Hoffa
#54. I enjoy meeting new people and feeling free to be myself for five seconds every single time. After that, they're not new anymore.
Robin Sacredfire
#55. God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.
William Nicholson
#56. NOTHING can/will define me! Free to be EVERYTHING!!!
Miley Cyrus
#57. To die to our neighbors means to stop judging them, to stop evaluating them, and thus to become free to be compassionate. Compassion can never coexist with judgment because judgment creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#58. When you discover who God is, you discover who you are. And when you discover who you are, you no longer have to struggle with the insecurity and self-promotion that define much of society. You no longer have to strain to measure up, to qualify. You are free to be yourself.
Steven Furtick
#59. Death isn't the end of your life, you know. Your body is a lock. Death is the key. The key turns ... and you're free. To be anywhere. Everywhere. Two places at once. Nowhere. Part of the background hum of the universe.
Joe Hill
#60. When our identity is found in Christ, we are free to be honest (James 5:16). If you have faith in Christ, your new identity is secure and robust. Your new identity in Christ is deeper than any of your wounds, sins, suffering, trials, and failures.
Anonymous
#61. Because Jesus was strong for me, I am free to be weak;
because Jesus won for me, I am free to lose;
because Jesus was someone, I am free to be no one;
because Jesus was extraordinary, I am free to be ordinary;
because Jesus succeeded for me, I am free to fail.
Tullian Tchividjian
#62. The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.
Ethan Hawke
#63. Maybe, the lesson we can all learn from the inner sadness of a Narcissist is to see through our own fabrications, our own illusions so that we can be set free to be real once more.
Shannon L. Alder
#64. There's something odd about telling people, artists, that they need to work for free to be pure while you're sitting there getting a salary that ultimately is paid by a generation of young people going deeply into debt for their education.
Astra Taylor
#65. The Key to Happiness is to be FREE to BE what you want to BE!-RVM
R.v.m.
#66. You are here to be free to be yourself. Never forget that.
Sherrie Campbell
#67. While sleeping, we're free to be what we really are, nothing more, nothing less.
Ilchi Lee
#68. In Christ, the other is given as the neighbor. I encounter the other as one for whom Christ became human, was crucified, and resurrected, and this sets them free to be who they are.
Brian Gregor
#69. I am free to write: therefore, I am free to be.
A.D. Posey
#70. We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked ... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.
Liv Ullmann
#71. It is one thing to be free; to be ignorant and free is to be imprisoned.
M.J. Croan
#72. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
Hermann Hesse
#73. I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we're living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.
Paloma Faith
#74. It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.
Donald Woods Winnicott
#75. Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong ... it is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideas.
Emma Watson
#77. The change starts within each one of us. And ends only when all children are free to be children
Craig Kielburger
#78. Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more.
Assata Shakur
#79. If everybody were compelled to have the proper kind of education, we'd have a better world. If we force people to do good, they will be free to be happy.
Ayn Rand
#80. I think the chemistry on the Orange set is extraordinary and I'm going to risk and say this: I think by virtue of the fact that there are not so many men, we are free to be absolutely authentic. There is a lot of freedom and trust.
Kate Mulgrew
#81. The either/or vs. the both/and views of objective reality & truth determine God to either exist in confinement or free to be who He is, I Am That I Am.
R. Alan Woods
#82. I enjoy having the ability to play a variety of ethnicities. Being ethnically ambiguous allows me to explore many roles, and I enjoy being free to be whoever I want to be.
Kelsey Chow
#83. [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
#84. As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.
Taiye Selasi
#85. Relax in your own home, Kylie. It's one of the few places on earth you're free to be as you really are.
Dorien Kelly
#86. Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.
Lawrence Lessig
#87. When we're kind to ourselves, we create a reservoir of compassion that we can extend to others. Our children learn how to be self-compassionate by watching us, and the people around us feel free to be authentic and connected.
Brene Brown
#88. In this moment, looking into his eyes while he doing these things to me, I feel overwhelmed, scared it'll all be taken away, but most of all the beginning of what I think is freedom. Free to be me. Free to feel human and not my parents puppet.
N.E. Henderson
#89. Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint
John Stuart Mill
#90. One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
Eric Hoffer
#91. I'm saying that in four years, I'm going to be free, and I've never been free in my entire life." Her smile grew. "And I want to know what that feels like.
Sarah J. Maas
#92. I believe comedy should be free to go anywhere. I believe that there is tasteful and untasteful, I think they're very close to each other, and it's how you handle it tonally. But I'm an equal opportunity offender.
David Dobkin
#93. The message was that if something is free, you should only take the best. If, on the other hand, you're forced to pay, it's best to lower the bar and not be so choosy.
David Sedaris
#94. I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.
Gary Numan
#95. We want people doing white hat search engine optimization (or even no search engine optimization at all) to be free to focus on creating amazing, compelling web sites. As always, we'll keep our ears open for feedback on ways to iterate and improve our ranking algorithms toward that goal.
Matt Cutts
#96. I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.
Pitbull
#97. When we are young and restless to be free, home is the place from which we long to escape. But if there is still a home intact when trouble arises and life becomes a battlefield, home is the place to which we yearn to return.
Billy Graham
#98. Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must be to penalize the free play of ideas.
H.L. Mencken
#99. I may not be the best dad but I taught my son how to get free samples at the mall.
Felipe Esparza
#100. And by these wonderful circumstances I was once more free again: and I kept my resolution then made, never to fall more into the hands of any recruiter, and henceforth and for ever to be a gentleman.
William Makepeace Thackeray
