Freely Quotes

#1. Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity ... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.

Victor Hugo

#2. We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.

Zhuangzi

#3. I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.

Zadie Smith

#4. The moment is freedom. - I couldn't live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.

Bruce Lee

#5. Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.

Henri Nouwen

#6. No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen.

Murray N. Rothbard

#7. You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.

George R R Martin

#8. He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon ... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.

James Madison

#10. I am not sorry, she realized. She had chosen to live freely as a killer rather than die quietly as a slave, and she could not regret that.

Leigh Bardugo

#11. We begin to become divine by learning to love like the divine loves. And how does the divine love? It loves everyone-including you-freely and without conditions.

Carolyn Elliott

#12. It was easy to see how upsetting it would be if women began to love freely where love came to them. An abyss would open in the principal shopping street of every town.

Christina Stead

#13. Once I stopped dwelling on what I didn't have, on what I thought I was going to lose, and began to give freely, everything opened up for me. Everything began to flow into my life.

Patti LaBelle

#14. The man who uses intelligence with respect to his diet, his sleeping habits and who exercises properly, is beyond any question of doubt taking the very best preventive medicines provided so freely and abundantly by nature

Joseph Pilates

#15. There's no place where one can breathe as freely as on the deck of a ship.

Elsa Triolet

#16. ...forgetting and perfecting freely, with open hand giving back to the world the gifts received, thus it is that the Ego stands in the current of life's events. Because a man bears this and no other Ego he has particular experiences, out of which certain deeds--and misdeeds--issue.

Hermann Poppelbaum

#17. I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.

Yusuf Hamied

#18. I tell you only because in my pregnancy I had discovered a new way to love, freely and joyfully and without expectation.

Rachel Joyce

#19. That sort doesn't like to admit she's been reduced to stealing food, thought the cook. Poor soul! It's only a few apples. Lord, if you're watching, those apples are freely given. You don't hold them against her soul. (The cook was in the habit of lecturing the Lord, whom she considered a colleague.)

T. Kingfisher

#20. The time of universal peace is near.
Prove this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked world
Shall bear the olive freely.

William Shakespeare

#21. It is a perverse faith, in that it reveres the "environment" ahead of people who live in it. It is a most ascetic superstition, in that it demands we live less happily and less freely and with less prosperity - the opposite of, say, the Protestant work ethic that helped build Ontario.

Ezra Levant

#22. I have no time for boiled sausages, or boiled vegetables of any nature really, and cannot for the life of me comprehend why anyone would still insist on serving dishes whose whole cooking process consisted of exposure to water, to freely invited guests.

Claire North

#23. We celebrate success by giving credit to others. To be successful, you need to share and give power freely. And you need to celebrate their successes.

Wade Dokken

#24. The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each freely ordering its own individual life, but bound together in unity byallegiance to one Crown, and co-operating in all that concerns the common weal.

George VI

#25. There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.

Giordano Bruno

#26. Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.

John Milton

#27. Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#28. You need to give yourself the time to think freely. I don't know if that is political. But sometimes things are political because you observe things that are right or that are wrong and you want to speak on them.

Queen Latifah

#29. When charity requires it we must freely and mildly communicate to our neighbor not only what is his instruction, but also what is profitable for his consolation.

Saint Francis De Sales

#30. The consumer gets the best deal when the product is cheapest, and the product is cheapest when people can freely compete in the market place.

John Pugsley

#31. Time and again I hear how important the darker environment is to those at our vintage-faith worship gathering. Attenders feel they can freely pray in a corner by themselves without feeling that everyone is staring at them.

Dan Kimball

#32. He rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families ...

George Eliot

#33. Our wisdom grows not by staking out claims and defending them against all comers, but by sharing information freely, so that we may work together for the betterment of all.

Marie Brennan

#34. If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nineteenth century. Manners, not devices: sometimes it's just better not to ask, and better not to look.

James Gleick

#35. A word, Sir Jamie. Quickly!"
You may speak freely, Alwyn," Jamie sighed. "You are always making too mcuh of minor incidents."
You're no' going to believe it, Sir Jamie," Alwyn gasped. "But I swear every male Fergusson alive is outside our gate.

Johanna Lindsey

#36. I would take them in a bowl," said Mark with a winning gaze. "It has been many years since I have eaten freely at my choice, fair one, and a plate of strawberries is all that I desire.

Cassandra Clare

#37. You have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man. Qing-jao

Orson Scott Card

#38. Happiness can't be made; it's been around since forever ... just freely waiting to be chosen.

T.F. Hodge

#39. God's grace is freely available but in order to receive it you have to realize you are lost without it.

David Jeremiah

#40. Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I charged, the easier it was for them to breathe freely once more.

Tama Janowitz

#41. Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue ... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely.

Dinesh D'Souza

#42. And overpowered by memory
Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely
For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching
Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself,
Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again
And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.

Homer

#43. Men freely believe that which they desire.

Julius Caesar

#44. I freely admit to enjoying the attentions Women lavish on me- Although it's usually when they're taking my order

Josh Stern

#45. Let your tears fall freely like a quenching rain.
Let go of the fear and don't harbour the blame.

Natalie Ducey

#46. Whether they'll write the story of my life as a tragedy or an epic fantasy ... I was wondering if it was going to be a kiss at the end, or sad music and a sweeping camera shot over the fields I once roamed freely. I'm hoping for the kiss, but expecting the sweeping camera shot.

Maggie Stiefvater

#47. The more consciously and freely we choose an evil, the more responsible we are for it and the more guilty we are of it; this is why spiritual sins like pride are greater in guilt than carnal sins.

Peter Kreeft

#48. To love God is to cooperate with His grace. And since I'm so very aware of my own need for grace, I must be willing to freely give it away. Each hole left from rejection must become an opportunity to create more and more space for grace in my heart.

Lysa TerKeurst

#49. When we let the energy of our existence flow freely, without being obstructed by fear, happiness finds its way into our daily lives.

Raphael Zernoff

#50. The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#51. People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.

Eric Idle

#52. There is a gentleness, a lightness, an element of freedom and, in a word, of civilization, that makes this country one of the few countries in the world where, despite everything, you can still breathe freely.

Bernard-Henri Levy

#53. Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.

Christopher McQuarrie

#54. It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#55. And at the end of the day, there was an attempt to suppress a book. The book wasn't suppressed. It's freely available in whatever it is, close to 50 languages. There was an attempt to suppress the writer. And I'm happy to say the writer wasn't suppressed.

Salman Rushdie

#56. Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it.

Kit Carson

#57. I see now that my faith was becoming an ally rather than an enemy because I could vent anger freely, even toward God, without fearing retribution.

Gerald L. Sittser

#58. Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.

Simone Weil

#59. The masculine grows by challenge, but the feminine grows by praise. A man must be unabashed and expressed in his appreciation for his woman. Praise her freely.

David Deida

#60. Each Middle East country has their own unique kinds of challenges; but the fundamentals, the desire for democracy and freely elected governments is a common thread throughout.

John McCain

#61. There are three ways in which we are honest. And those three ways will make up the bulk of this book. The three ways are 1) living based on our values (lifestyle); 2) becoming comfortable with our intentions (boldness); and 3) by expressing our sexuality freely (communication).

Mark Manson

#62. Take patiently the petty annoyances, the trifling discomforts, the unimportant losses which come upon all of us daily; for by means of these little matters, lovingly and freely accepted, you will give Him your whole heart, and win His.

Francis De Sales

#63. A gift freely given,
I did not ask to be in this state: living.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#64. Each individual human being can claim the Spirit of Jesus as the guiding spirit of his or her life. In that Spirit we can speak and act freely and confidently with the knowledge that the same Spirit that inspired Jesus is inspiring us.

Henri Nouwen

#65. A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably

William Penn

#66. The O'Kanes fucked freely and gleefully, but that wasn't why they fell in love. They found the people who carried them through the fuckups and cherished them even though they were flawed, fallible humans. Nessa

Kit Rocha

#67. Freely we serve, because freely we love.

John Milton

#68. Openness is allowing and directing the energy of the Universe to flow through you freely, giving and taking with ease.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#69. A heart given freely is the most vulnerable and selfless thing one can offer another human being. It can be as fragile and needy as a newly born infant, or as solid and self-supporting as a granite pillar, yet it is the hands of the recipient that determines its ultimate fate.

Mark W. Boyer

#70. So: if you buy the notion that reality consists of the things in your freeze-frame mental image right now, and if you agree that your now is no more valid than the now of someone located far away in space who can move freely, then reality encompasses all of the events in spacetime.

Brian Greene

#71. Whenever my behavior is biologically determined or socially conditioned, it is not truly free. To act freely, according to Kant, is to act autonomously. And to act autonomously is to act according to a law I give myself - not according to the dictates of nature or social convention.

Michael J. Sandel

#72. A true friend, freely advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably." - William Penn

Shaun Gold

#73. No wonder she was so underweight. She was desperate to please a woman that could never be pleased, in the hopes of being loved and accepted by the very person that should be giving that freely.

Rose Wynters

#74. At Guantanamo Bay, we could create a West Berlin, a free small city within the Communist nation that could trade freely with the U.S. and elect its own officials.

Elliott Abrams

#75. While boys and men could roam freely about town, my mother and I could not go out without a male relative to accompany us, even if it was a five-year-old boy! This was the tradition.

Malala Yousafzai

#76. An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.

Paul Klee

#77. Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.

Jimmy Wales

#78. Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

Christopher Hitchens

#79. The fairy tale about the people who freely detach and re-attach appendages still inspires Sam. He remembers the character who interchanged his earlobes and testicles so he could acutely hear his ejaculations and enjoy a tightening at the side of his head whenever the weather got cold.

Barry Webster

#80. To lay aside what you have in your head (selfish desires and ambitions); to freely bestow what you have in your hand; and never to flinch from the blows of adversity!

Paramahansa Yogananda

#81. For the valour of the Edain the Elves shall ever remember as the ages lengthen, marvelling that they gave life so freely of which they had on earth so little.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#82. My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly things, but to carry it freely, an earthly head which creates meaning for the earth!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#83. The two of them holding each other, the tears flowing freely now, as if by never letting go they would never have to say goodbye.

Alexander Gordon Smith

#84. Choosing beliefs freely is not what rational minds do.

Sam Harris

#85. The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

J.I. Packer

#86. I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

J. Michael Straczynski

#87. But to be loving is simply this: a willingness to respond freely and openly. Right now, it may be limited to one or two people in your lives. But it is possible to extend this ability to embrace the entire world.

Sadhguru

#88. I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun.

Shirley Manson

#89. Time is no friend, it has turned its back and will not help, will not move anything, will not slow things down that are moving. ....... Where it has given hours, days, years, it will not yield moments. Where it has given moments so freely and with abundances, it now gives eternity.

Albert French

#90. When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.

Henri Nouwen

#91. My political enemies I can freely forgive; but as for who abused me when I was serving my country in the field, and those who attacked me for serving my country
Doctor, that is a different case.

Andrew Jackson

#92. Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

Leo Tolstoy

#93. Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new ending to the bad memories. Its an opportunity to enjoy life, breathe freely, think and love. Be grateful for this beautiful day.

Norton Juster

#94. Agree and freely switch on the heart that will take "no" as an answer to some questions.

Israelmore Ayivor

#95. Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#96. There is no reason in the world why we shouldn't fight for the preservation of a chance to live freely, no reason why we shouldn't suffer to uphold that which we want to endure. May God give me the courage to do my duty and not falter.

Nile Kinnick

#97. Everything I ever valued before this was valued only because it was useless, because time spent upon it was not demanded but freely given, because to play is to be free. Free is not a word that exists here, I think, in their language. Nothing here is free of its own nature, its own law.

David Malouf

#98. There are some favors that can't be bought, and some kindnesses that should only be given freely.

Julianne Donaldson

#99. A man does not live for himself alone in this mortal body to work for it alone, but he lives also for all men on earth; rather, he lives only for others and not for himself. To this end he brings his body into subjection that he may the more sincerely and freely serve others.

Martin Luther

#100. You're a total criminal, aren't you?" she asked, but to her surprise, she was grinning ear to ear. He shook his head. "Have I stolen your heart yet?" That stopped her cold. She blinked several times. "What?" "Don't answer," he whispered. "I won't take it until you give it freely.

Helena Hunting