Top 100 Freed Quotes
#1. When the Self is freed from mind there are no limits to what one can experience.
Vivian Amis
#2. All this is like a dream which the word bears within itself and which, passing through him who writes, is freed and frees him.
Italo Calvino
#3. If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
Harriet Tubman
#4. Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!
Immanuel Kant
#5. As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.
Seth Godin
#6. Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.
Honore De Balzac
#7. The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#8. Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Samuel Johnson
#9. To stop thought, you have to go above it. We are collecting energy. When it is freed, it is like a flood and the water will rise and we are in altered states of attention.
Frederick Lenz
#10. The stroke had cost him the use of half his body, but it had freed him of all those artificial roles society expected him to play out.
Grant Jerkins
#11. The chains and the silence, which should have bound her deep within herself, which should have smothered her, strangled her, on the contrary freed her from herself.
Pauline Reage
#12. With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
Bertrand Russell
#13. We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
Vernon Howard
#14. I must go live at the ends of the earth and have my child there while I wait for Min and Jing to be freed.
That happy day will come: two men making their way towards a little cottage lost in the open countryside.
The door opens ...
Shan Sa
#15. One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#18. I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
Adolf Loos
#19. But the strangest of all sensations is the moment after you have been freed of the baby
and the baby of you
and you are handed this tiny shriveled creature to hold for the first time ... and you feel a mixture of unbelievable instant love and desperate fear.
Douglas Kennedy
#20. I'm fonder of you than anybody on earth. I couldn't tell you that in New York. It'd mean I was a faggot. That was what the Civil War was about. Abraham Lincoln was a faggot. He was in love with General Grant. So was Jefferson Davis. Lincoln just freed the slaves on a bet.
Ernest Hemingway,
#21. Socrates talks to an old duffer about what old age is like. The old duffer says in effect (I can't put my hands on the book just now) that he feels as though he'd been freed from a cruel and unreasonable master.
Kurt Vonnegut
#22. His body and his mind went about their different businesses. The former, freed from conscious instruction, breathed, rolled, sweated, and digested. The latter went dreaming.
Clive Barker
#23. People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.
Milton H. Erickson
#24. The power of the work comes through this alchemical process in which the darkness is transmuted into light, and the energy that was trapped in maintaining rigid social structures and unhealthy cultural conditioning becomes freed up and released.
William Keepin
#25. As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.
Robin Hobb
#26. Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder.
Andy Partridge
#27. Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one's sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses.
Sigmund Freud
#28. Because it was the first time in my life that I gave myself permission to be me. I was still shy and self-conscious and terrified of people, but Jenkins had essentially freed me of the bonds of having to try to fit in.
Jenny Lawson
#29. The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.
Joyce Carol Oates
#30. Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up the world.
Gautama Buddha
#31. Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There's a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going.
Ben Shapiro
#32. All change is due to time, therefore if you
Are freed from time, you're free from changing too.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#33. And bring me back that knife," she added. "It's my favorite one."
Kell shook his head, and freed the blade from where it had lodged in the wood. "They're all your favorite.
V.E Schwab
#34. There is more in there than those trifles. There is the wild, beating heart of an artist, dancing at the cage of your chest and desperate to be freed again!
D.M. Mitchell
#35. Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.
Robert Kennedy
#36. We may abandon a holistic, metaphysical ideal of natural law reconciled with cultural configurations; but we cannot abandon a vision of a humanity freed from such pathologies without simultaneously siding with the worst kind of system-reproductive education.
Mark Murphy
#37. Sinners live in a sort of hell, and saints imagine themselves in a sort of heaven. And the sage? - for him it is moksha, for him it is the absolute freedom. He is freed from all duality. The secret key, and the only key, is awareness.
Rajneesh
#38. Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went on around me.
Colin Fletcher
#39. For some girls, our bodies are not immortal so much as
expendable, we have punished them or wearied
from dragging them around for so long and so we go
wearing the brilliant plumage of the possibly freed
by death.
Connie Voisine
#40. From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.
Gautama Buddha
#41. I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free .
Nikos Kazantzakis
#42. When you recklessly mine the depths of your imagination, universal truths are freed to surface.
Joshua Emmet
#43. I listened to their last, gasping cries. Their vanishing words. I watched their love visions and freed them from their fear. I took them all away, and if ever there was a time I needed distraction, this was it.
Markus Zusak
#44. The evidence of "forgiveness of sin" is not found in a profession of belief, but in a life freed from self-destructive pursuits, scapegoating, and violence.
Peter Rollins
#45. Photographs freed from the scientific bias can, and indeed usually do, have double meanings, implied meanings, unintended meanings, can hint and insinuate, and may even mean the opposite of what they apparently mean.
Peter C Bunnell
#46. Like most blacks in Philadelphia, Eliza was free. She said Philadelphia was the best city for freed slaves or freeborn Africans.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#47. The Sierra Nevada is five hundred miles of rock put right. Granite freed by glaciers and lifted through clouds where water, frozen and fine, has scraped and washed it into a high country so brilliant it brings light into night.
Willard Wyman
#48. I'm like the Davy Crockett of comedy ... after Davy Crockett opened up the West and helped everybody ... they didn't need him anymore. I freed a lot of comics ... if I never would have done comedy, it would've been a different art form ... I'm sure of it.
Paul Mooney
#49. Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#50. The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom.
Vishal Mangalwadi
#51. I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.
Chris Lowe
#52. Christ, you who were crucified! Now I have given up everything that could bind me. And I have placed myself in your hands, if you would find my life worthy enough to be freed from its servitude to Satan. Take me so that I may feel that I am your slave, for then I will possess you in return.
Sigrid Undset
#53. An internally conceived and gestated fetus is a protected fetus, and a protected fetus is a fetus freed to loll about long enough to bloom a giant brain. So we lend new meaning to the term egghead: from the cloistered egg is born the bulging frontal lobe.
Natalie Angier
#54. Where otherwise words were, flow discoveries, freed all surprised out of the fruit's flesh. RAINER MARIA RILKE
Gayle Brandeis
#55. The question is unanswerable, which is not to say futile. The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, of confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from ghosts and girded me against the sheer terror of disembodiment.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#56. Hitler decided that Mussolini must be freed from the Italian Partisans because Benito was his friend and had acted in good faith.
Otto Skorzeny
#57. But BEing time is never wasted time. When we are BEing, not only are we collaborating with chronological time, but we are touching on kairos, and are freed from the normal restrictions of time.
Madeleine L'Engle
#58. Fate was tricky like that. It consumed us when we thought we were free, and it freed us when we thought we were captured.
Shannon A. Thompson
#59. Claire freed him, and then lifted Ryan to his feet. She pushed back his head to inspect his wound, overly rough. "You'll live." Ryan winced. "Thanks, Honey, I love you, too.
Jamie McGuire
#60. From that day on it was as if Ren freed me from gravity. I was floating in the sky. Higher. Higher. Higher.
Ai Yazawa
#61. Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.
Madeleine L'Engle
#62. It is taught, we too can be enlightened, every one of us. We can be completely freed from the bonds of limitation and conditioned confusion through our own endeavor, inspiration, effort and development. There is a path, and we can traverse it.
Sharon Salzberg
#63. You are always freed by your lucid knowledge and acceptance of your tasks.
Auliq Ice
#64. Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.
Larry Flynt
#65. Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.
Woodrow Wilson
#66. Repressed and suppressed feelings require counter-energy to keep them submerged. It takes energy to hold down our feelings. As these feelings are relinquished, the energy that had been holding down the negativity is now freed for constructive uses.
David R. Hawkins
#67. Love was as flawed and terrible and beautiful as we were.
To be alive meant looking for it in ourselves and in others, an imperfection searching for an impossible perfection.
Because in that journey was where truth resided.
Love wasn't about being held. It was about being freed.
Emma Raveling
#68. Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they felt more free and at ease themselves. They thought that my action didn't just free blacks but them, too.
Rosa Parks
#69. Our strengths are not our own until they are freed of the burden of having to heal the past.
Jonathan Raymond
#70. Industrial agriculture freed many people to pursue lives their parents and grandparents could never have. It made America modern.
Michael Specter
#71. For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#72. Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.
Andre Agassi
#73. No Blame: The most liberating and empowering day of my life was the day I freed myself from my own self-destructive nonsense.
Steve Maraboli
#74. My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.
Albert Camus
#75. I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
Harriet Tubman
#76. When we are freed from the rules and regulations that are so often imposed on us in the name of God, we discover that creativity is the natural result of spirituality. And if this is true, then our soul is the primary material for all artistic expression.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#77. And how can someone be described as flawless [or protector] who is not freed from his lower self
Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
#78. I got into pastoring because of the art form. I started a church, but I felt the art form needed to be freed for all people. A particular religion over others was never interesting to me. I wanted to talk to people about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.
Rob Bell
#79. Solitude The creation of an open, empty space in our lives by purposefully abstaining from interaction with other human beings, so that, freed from competing loyalties, we can be found by God The
Richard J. Foster
#80. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.
Sarah Vowell
#81. Sweet Jesus," he whispered, trailing kisses along the line of her jaw. "Our excavation must have freed some deep, dark ancient enchantment from the earth. How else to explain this magic?
Cara Elliott
#82. Loving Sarah had freed all my tender feelings for women. I could always find in my heart an excuse for anything any woman did.
Isabel Miller
#83. Once I freed myself from the bondage of perfection and embraced a lifestyle that made time for my passions, I was happier in all of my pursuits and responsibilities.
Jessica N. Turner
#84. Your sexuality is the engine of your humanness. Freed of your self, it is an engine of movement. It isn't there to move your experience, but to move your being into your experience, bringing your being into the physicality of your self.
John De Ruiter
#85. As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health - food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is Love of Oneself.
Charlie Chaplin
#86. God Himself met my needs, which freed me up from looking for "life" from people. I was free to serve, pray, and give in my relationships.
Kelly Minter
#87. When the intensity it takes to extricate one from a negative state is equal to or greater than the intensity that perpetuated the state, then the person can be freed of that state
I. Alan Appt
#88. As in all religions, man is freed of the weight of his own life.
Albert Camus
#89. Images have enormous power, and images freed from deep within ourselves can change us profoundly.
Alice McCall
#90. Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
Stephen Ambrose
#91. Maharajji told me, 'Give up anger and I'll help you.' I found
that love freed me back into the ocean of love and my righteous anger didn't do that. And I would rather be free than right.
Ram Dass
#92. Subsidies on petroleum products and fertilizers should be phased out in a defined, time-bound manner. The resources that would get freed up could then be used to fund various social sector programmes in education, healthcare and other priority sectors.
Baba Kalyani
#93. Isn't it time that, loving, we freed ourselves
from the beloved, and, trembling, endured:
as the arrow endures the bow, so as to be,
in its flight, something more than itself?
Rainer Maria Rilke
#94. It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.
Nursultan Nazarbayev
#95. One joy of life in the north comes after a winter storm, when the sky, freed of its burden, has paled, and the glow of the unseen sun is everywhere reflected by the snow, so that all things stand out sharp and clear.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#96. He believed that there was need in the world for a class freed from the handicap of law and morality, a class acutely adaptable and immoral; a class bent on achieving, not the equality of all men, but the production, at the top, of the superman.
H.L. Mencken
#97. But there's a message there for everyone and it is that people can unite, that democracy from below can challenge oligarchy, that imprisoned migrants can be freed, that fascism can be overcome, and that equality is emancipatory. The
Angela Y. Davis
#98. The first time I went to New York, I met Alan Freed.
Johnny Rivers
#99. Operating superficially, the mind is random in its activity and stale in its insights and images. However, with practice and experience the mind is freed from the skull, and the fresh and new can appear as though for the first time. It
Matsuo Basho
#100. A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!
Robert A. Heinlein
