Top 100 Free To Live Quotes
#1. When a man accepts that he will no doubt die, he is free to live.
M. Glenn Taylor
#2. Your mind should be on one thing and one thing only: gaining enough power to be free to live your own purpose and not another man's.
Cheryl Matthynssens
#3. We can't hide it or fake it. We'll never fit society's idea for how women should look and behave, but why is that a tragedy? We're free to live how we want. It's liberating, if you choose to see it that way.
Sarai Walker
#4. I support equality. Everyone should feel free to live out the parts of their personality that correspond to the classic male or female image.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
#5. They would no longer be time-bound, that they were free to live in the future, the past, in fantasy.
She had been a woman preparing to live, not living.
Kiana Davenport
#7. Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.
Jonathan Sacks
#8. You are born, you live and then you die. But when you forgive you are free to live again!
Stephen Richards
#9. And in the minds of progressives you are free to live anyway you want so long as it's progressive.
Jonah Goldberg
#11. When a man knows how to live amid danger, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live.
William O. Douglas
#12. There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman! No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.
Samuel Gompers
#13. We are free to live the life we have imagined, not the life imagined for us.
Chris Matakas
#14. Jesus set us free to live the abundant life by being all that He has created us to be and accomplishing all that He has planned for us to do.
Sharon Jaynes
#15. The possibility of paradise hovers on the cusp of coming into being, so much so that it takes powerful forces to keep such a paradise at bay. If paradise now arises in hell, it's because in the suspension of the usual order and the failure of most systems, we are free to live and act another way.
Rebecca Solnit
#16. A love ethic presupposes that everyone has the right to be free, to live fully and well.
Bell Hooks
#17. the people who know me are the ones who are free to live and love without any agenda.
William Paul Young
#18. Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.
Henry Ford
#19. Those who are not free to live as they choose are second class citizens. The weak will lose everything to the strong, even their lives.
Naoyuki Ochiai
#20. Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
Jack Kornfield
#21. The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.
Chuck Hagel
#22. What is civilisation? Idriss once remarked. It's a woman, free to live as she wants.
Gregory David Roberts
#23. An eternally changing world offers no future for which you must aim. With no future to aspire to, you are free to live fully in the here and now.
R.L. Prendergast
#24. A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.
Marisa Tomei
#25. He was free-free to choose to swing from a tree for the afternoon rather than mend fences or train horses. He was free to live.
Elizabeth Michels
#26. Let us not rest until we are free to live in dignity in the land of our birth.
Mark Mathabane
#27. Who is more responsible than a gull who finds and
follows a meaning, a higher purpose for life? For a thousand
years we have scrabbled after fish heads, but now we have a
reason to live - to learn, to discover, to be free!
Richard Bach
#28. What geomancy reads what the windblown sand writes on the desert rock? I read there that all things live by a generous power and dance to a mighty tune; or I read there all things are scattered and hurled, that our every arabesque and grand jete is a frantic variation on our one free fall.
Annie Dillard
#29. But I would say to my fellows, once for all, As long as possible live free and uncommitted.
Henry David Thoreau
#30. The United States can no longer rely upon foreign nations such as China to bail us out of our economic irresponsibility. We must live within our means and implement creative, free-market solutions to put Americans back in jobs and to create economic opportunities.
Pete Sessions
#31. Christ sets us free by the power of His Spirit; then He maintains our freedom as we learn to live from day to day in the power of that Spirit.
Beth Moore
#32. I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government ... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.
Woodrow Wilson
#33. Because the American people champion liberty, more people in the world live free today than at any time in history. Yet, there is more to be done and it is America who will lead the way.
Dick Armey
#34. Some would know
Why I so
Long still doe tarry,
And ask why
Here that I
Live, and not marry?
Thus I those
Doe oppose;
What man would be here,
Slave to Thrall,
If at all
He could live free here?
Robert Herrick
#35. Better to sit at the waters birth,
Than a sea of waves to win;
To live in the love that floweth forth,
Than the love that cometh in.
Be thy a well of love, my child,
Flowing, and free, and sure;
For a cistern of love, though undefiled,
Keeps not the spirit pure.
George MacDonald
#36. Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)
Alexandre Dumas
#37. To paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow ... we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains, it turns out, are not prisoners of the world we live in; we can fly free! We can, any time we like, create the impossible.
Robert Krulwich
#38. To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable.
Aldous Huxley
#39. When two people are free to disagree, they are free to love. When they are not free, they live in fear, and love dies.
Henry Cloud
#40. To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?
Tom Robbins
#41. If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time. And then in a way you do not live at all, but in another way you live forever.
John McPhee
#42. The ones who chose to live free of inconvenience by tolerating the agony and degradation of others?
Robin Hobb
#43. I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over
I just wanna live simple and free.
Christina Aguilera
#44. The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love for all humanity.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#45. There is nothing more powerful than this moment your living, now, more powerful than your convictions and truths, spend time with what your heart desires and souls screams for. Life ends a day before we know it, it's so important to chase everything that matters to you.
Nikki Rowe
#46. I never expected to run into a room and suddenly I belonged. I figured people who live on the fringes of society, they're more free. They can choose to visit anywhere; they don't belong to anywhere. It's like being without a nation, in a way.
Mark Bradford
#47. The sages have a hundred maps to give
That trace their crawling cosmos like a tree
They rattle reason out through many a sieve
That stores the sand but lets the gold go free
And all these things are less than dust to me
Because my name is Lazarus and I live.
G.K. Chesterton
#48. You are infinitely capable. You don't live in the universe. You are the universe. You are the entire universe experiencing itself through the eyes of one human. And thus, you are free to create the reality you choose.
Michael Sanders
#49. Authentic and free. The Gucci guilty woman is about living in the moment. She's a modern woman, someone who really owns herself and her sensuality. It's supposed to be a very empowering and sensual fragrance.
Evan Rachel Wood
#50. Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!
Richard Bach
#51. We live like caged beasts waiting for the day to let the rage free.
Tupac Shakur
#52. Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.
Bell Hooks
#53. Monitor and control every passing day so as to live without regrets
Sunday Adelaja
#54. As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.
Julia Ward Howe
#55. Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
Faith Hunter
#56. Make for the children an evening of happiness in a world of storm. Let the children have their night of fun and laughter ... resolved that by our daring, these same children shall not be denied their right to live in a free and decent world.
Winston Churchill
#57. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Thomas Jefferson
#58. Woodcutter. Cut my shadow from me. Free me from the torment of being without fruit. Why was I born among mirrors? Day goes round and round me. The night copies me in all its stars. I want to live without my reflection. And then let me dream that ants and thistledown are my leaves and my parrots.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#59. Money, for me, is just to create bigger and better things. A lot of guys in the deejaying world flaunt it, but I don't see any use in that. I don't need anything. I live in hotels. Most of my clothes I get for free. I like to invest in ideas. In people.
Diplo
#60. To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.
John Denver
#61. And she didn't once say anything about this being a sin. It used to be I got the word sin slapped in my face every time I did something wrong, but come on, when you live in a sin-free family with sin-free parents and a sin-free sister, well, you can't help but sin a little extra on their behalf.
Han Nolan
#62. You don't have to live with whatever life throws you--or whatever you've gotten yourself into...
You can choose to Change Your Story!
Kirstin Leigh
#63. All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign.
Ban Ki-moon
#64. We can raise our sights high when we're willing to break free from being conformists who live a conventional life simply because we are too afraid to express our uniqueness.
Alexandra Stoddard
#65. To live! like a tree alone and free,
To live! like a forest in brotherhood/sisterhood ...
Nazim Hikmet
#66. Recorded music is basically free now. I used to tour to promote a CD, but now I make a CD to promote a tour. I've moved on and live with the new reality, but I do get frustrated when people do dumb things.
Peter Frampton
#67. Bid me to live, and I will live
Thy Protestant to be:
Or bid me love, and I will give
A loving heart to thee,
A heart as soft, a heart as kind,
A heart as sound and free
As in the whole world thou canst find,
That heart I'll give to thee.
Robert Herrick
#68. Every single one of us as Americans need to remember that freedom did not come free, as we get on our knees tonight, thank God we live in a country where people are trying to break into, and not a country people are trying to break out of.
Mike Huckabee
#69. My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.
Anne Lamott
#70. Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.
John Ford
#71. In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
Cal Thomas
#72. Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!
Jules Verne
#73. I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music, sports, beer, and pizza are all good enough reasons for living. But living an honest life - for that you need the truth.
Ricky Gervais
#74. I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.
Uzo Aduba
#75. Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].
Alan Lightman
#76. English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
Yael Naim
#77. According to the fortune-cookie logic most people live by, the best things in life are free. That's crap. I have a gold-plated robot that scratches the exact part of my back where my hands can't reach, and it certainly wasn't free.
Josh Lieb
#78. We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.
Hal Holbrook
#79. From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.
Dirk Benedict
#80. He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind - that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.
Swami Vivekananda
#81. The fool will pay anything to live a few more years on earth, but the fool rejects the free gift of everlasting life. Salvation is a wise choice.
Felix Wantang
#82. Our focus reflects our love and admiration for you ... We want you to live lives of spiritual maturity and fulfillment, free of unrealistic comparisons.
Elaine L. Jack
#83. Children raised with love and compassion will be free to use their time as adults in meaningful and creative ways, rather than expressing their childhood hurts in ways that harm themselves or others. If adults have no need to deal with the past, they can live fully in the present.
Jan Hunt
#84. Humble spirits are free to love and to be who they are. They have no artificial standards to live up to.
Gary Zukav
#85. Because of the past, so many people are living in the past! No one is free from the past, but we are free to choose to move from the past into the present or stay in the past, though we live in the present!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#86. I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived.
Taylor Swift
#87. One day we will be free. And we become free by living despite what they do to us. We live by working, and we work for God.
Kristy Cambron
#88. A mind cluttered with past thoughts, old conversations and unhealed wounds can only serve to drag us down and compromise our ability to live free.
Shannon Tanner
#89. Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for.
Rick Pitino
#90. Midlife is when you have to accept what you've created, knowing that the life you have is is the only one you'll live. And that can be terrifying, until you accept it, and then you are free of terror.
Dean Bakopoulos
#91. I want to live my life with no goals anymore, but just completely free, like I did when I was younger.
Jessica Lange
#92. I usedta live in the world
really be in the world
free & sweet talkin
good mornin & thank-you & nice day
uh huh
i cant now
i cant be nice to nobody
nice is such a rip-off
regular beauty & a smile in the street
is just a set-up
Ntozake Shange
#93. Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air they rise and fly an invisible course. Their food is knowledge. They live on emptiness. They have seen how to break free. Who can follow them?
Gautama Buddha
#94. There is no other way the world is going to see the supreme glory of Christ today, except that we break free from the Disneyland of America and begin to live lifestyles of missionary sacrifice that looks to the world like our treasure is in heaven and not on the earth.
John Piper
#95. I'm not a religious person. I don't have any desire. To me it's imitative of a conventional culture. I'm all for it for anybody. I totally have a free and open feeling about how other humans want to live their lives. It's just not something that has any real significance for me.
Lily Tomlin
#96. If I can only live to see the American union firmly fixed, and free governments well established in our western world, and can leave to my children but a crust of bread and liberty, I shall die satisfied.
George Mason
#97. Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.
Octavia E. Butler
#98. (Ah, lovely adolescence - when the "talented" are officially shunted off from the herd, thus putting the total burden of society's creative dreams on the thin shoulders of a few select souls, while condemning everyone else to live a more commonplace, inspiration-free existence! What a system . . . )
Elizabeth Gilbert
#99. As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.
Paul Auster
#100. It is stimulating to live in a society that is not standardized or mechanized, and is free from monotony.
R.K. Narayan
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