Top 100 Frees Quotes
#1. The essential point of Nineteen Eighty-Four is just this, the danger of the ultimate and absolute power which mind can develop when it frees itself from conditions, from the bondage of things and history.
George Orwell
#2. He true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately ... Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.
Richard J. Foster
#3. The day you realize that your efforts and rewards are not related, it really frees up your calendar,
Scott Adams
#4. Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.
Robert Genn
#5. If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
Bill Veeck
#6. One word frees us all the weight and pain of life:
That word is Love.
-Sophocles
Anne Gracie
#7. Only forgiveness frees us from the injustice of others.
Philip Yancey
#9. Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality.
Brother Lawrence
#10. PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that.
Morihei Ueshiba
#11. Writing is my joy, is my comfort zone, it strengthens my feeble knees and it frees my troubled heart.
Euginia Herlihy
#12. Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a house fire destroys not only our worldly goods, but our attachment to what's gone.
Sue Grafton
#13. Admitting we are not God - not in control, not running anything, not responsible for everyone's well-being, not the solution for everything and everyone, not at the center of all things - doesn't belittle us; it frees us.
Louie Giglio
#14. I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters if I'm not worrying about the logistics.
Kim Edwards
#15. Good Chianti, that aged, majestic and proud wine, enlivens my heart, and frees it painlessly from all fatigue and sadness.
Francesco Redi
#16. The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
Gary Zukav
#17. The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains.
Joseph Conrad
#18. Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?
John Piper
#19. I find anonymous music frees me best. Chinese pop can be perfect. I can't decipher anything on the CD label; there is nothing I can hang on to.
Romesh Gunesekera
#20. Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will- to- action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
Arthur Gordon Webster
#21. Sometimes I wonder if she transforms people into animals, or whether she finds the beast inside us, and frees it.
Neil Gaiman
#22. And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.
Patty Hearst
#23. I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.
Richard Powers
#24. Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.
Epicurus
#25. Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.
W. H. Auden
#26. The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude.
Jurgen Habermas
#27. A liberal education ... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
Robert M. Hutchins
#28. I need to have proper equipment when I work out, and the Nike Frees are light, comfortable, and great for training. I also usually bring a short-sleeve or long-sleeve compression shirt and a pair of shorts.
Sam Bradford
#29. Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#30. Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep working. I ask the Almighty for help. That frees me ...
Jules Olitski
#31. Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key - it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.
Timothy Leary
#33. Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting.
Rumi
#34. The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.
Mason Cooley
#35. Cheap grace is not the kind of forgiveness of sin which frees us from the toils of sin. Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#37. Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
Ramana Maharshi
#38. I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.
Jane Horrocks
#39. God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.
Alice Walker
#40. The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation.
Tullian Tchividjian
#41. Does it help?" he asks. "The e-mailing."
She nods. "A tiny bit. It's strange. You're writing a letter to someone who's never going to read it, so it kind of frees you up a bit.
Melina Marchetta
#42. We create through our voice, through the power of our voice. So, when a person frees up their voice energies, from a yogic standpoint, they're increasing their potency as creators, to create in their life whatever it is they choose to create.
Tom Kenyon
#43. Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
Octavia E. Butler
#44. Consuming what is natural, good and untainted frees you, protects you, and realigns you with what is natural, peaceful and safe.
Bryant McGill
#45. I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
Laurie Anderson
#46. The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).
John Piper
#47. Sharing a burdened heart with another who has the wisdom, strength, and knowledge to carry it, frees us from its weight long enough to focus on solutions
Gayathri Ramprasad
#48. Do not treat others as you would not like to be treated' frees one from hypocrisy. 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' enslaves one with insincerity.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#49. Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
Val McDermid
#50. 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
#51. It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery.
Henri De Lubac
#52. You want to work with good people. When you're working with good people, it frees you up. There's nothing worse, as an actor, to show up and then feel like you have to protect yourself somehow because you don't feel like you're in good hands.
James Badge Dale
#53. Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.
Joanna Macy
#54. The total acceptance of ourselves in the present moment without judging things that happen, letting things happen as they happen, is the final act that frees us from the ego: this is the unconditional surrender of the ego to the Higher Self.
Human Angels
#55. We do good because it frees the heart. It opens us to a wellspring of happiness.
Sharon Salzberg
#56. The unconditional love that God gives us when we are in relationship with him frees us and sustains us; we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves according to worldly standards, we are fine just the way we are.
Tim Crawshaw
#57. Investing is important, but get debt-free first. That's what frees up your income so you can win.
Dave Ramsey
#58. Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment of peace. Look around you, take a deep breath and notice what you see, hear and feel. Present moment awareness is the point of power and choice. It frees us from our compulsive thoughts.
Laura Harvey
#59. At first, yes. But a long intimacy frees you of that illusion, and it also acquaints you with their scantiness of character. The effect they have produced on you is only their bluff. There is not such a thing as too much beauty.
Rex Stout
#60. If you begin with the assumption of freedom, the preoccupation is always how to keep freedom in check, how to bind; But if you begin with the assumption of bondage, the preoccupation is always how to set out the word that frees.
Gerhard
#61. The demons aren't the noise. They are our aversion to the noise ... when you can accept discomfort, doing so allows a balance of mind. That surrender, that letting go of wanting anything to be other than it is right in the moment, is what frees us from hell.
Stephen Levine
#62. But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.
John Buchanan Robinson
#65. Forgiving and being forgiven frees our souls and lightens our load.
Sara Dormon
#66. justification by faith alone frees me to love my neighbor disinterestedly, for his or her own sake, as my sister or brother, not as the calculated means to my own desired ends.
Timothy George
#67. Racism defends our greed, frees us from self-control and makes others responsible for our failings. It is an attempt to silence the guilt so we can look in the mirror.
Mari Serebrov
#68. I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about.
Peter Jackson
#69. I love games. I honestly can't imagine working with any other medium. I guess it would be akin to an artist who's doing commercial art and then goes into education, but it really frees you up to do all other kinds of creative stuff.
Brenda Brathwaite
#70. The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.
Howard Thompson
#71. While I may not be able to describe to you exactly what enlightenment is like, I can tell you that it is wonderful beyond understanding. The experience of enlightenment frees your mind from painful and limited states of awareness.
Frederick Lenz
#72. There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
Angelina Jolie
#73. You are not attracting the wrong people, you are simply accepting them. Saying 'No' frees you up so you can say 'Yes' when you truly want to.
Malti Bhojwani
#74. Nothing frees you like the truth, and nothing holds you back more than not knowing it. Knowledge is power; it heals what hurts, fills what's empty, clears what's confused, lightens what's heavy, brings friends together, turns dust to gold, and raises the sun.
Mike Dooley
#75. Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect
Frantz Fanon
#76. The thing that the Internet does is it allows labor to move freely across borders in the way that capital does but, traditionally, labor cannot. So the Internet frees workers to be based anywhere and work for employers anywhere.
Leila Janah
#77. The principle is this: We must not allow anything into our life that feeds our point of weakness. A soldier doesn't dance through a mind field any more than we should play with a hand grenade. When the enemy's entry points are boarded up, it frees us to hear clearly the voice of our Commander.
Eric Ludy
#78. Humor is a necessary part of wisdom; it gives perspective; it frees the spirit. - ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY I
Jean Kennedy Smith
#79. The gospel frees us from the relentless pressure of having to prove ourselves, for we are already proven and secure.
Timothy Keller
#80. The understanding you gain from practicing gratitude frees you from being lost or identified with either the negative or the positive aspects of life, letting you simply meet life in each moment as it rises ...
Phillip Moffitt
#81. 'Bunk' is better than 'Wheel of Fortune' because we have a wheel, just like them, but our wheel is purposeless. It doesn't do anything. It just spins for no reason. Which is nice because it frees our wheel up to really pursue its dream: becoming a professional paddlewheel.
Kurt Braunohler
#82. Rumi says, Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting. That
Jalaluddin Rumi
#83. Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.
Louise Hay
#84. The only thing that frees you from the need to pretend in order to make people believe you are something when you are actually not is the gospel because the gospel tells you that identity, my meaning, my security, and all of those things are in Christ.
Tullian Tchividjian
#85. When you have an entire amphitheatre of people laughing that way, it makes you feel so funny and it frees you to go further than you probably would.
Kelly Ripa
#86. It is not certain where Death awaits us, so let us await it everywhere. To think of death beforehand is to think of our liberty. Whoever learns how to die has learned how not to be a slave. Knowing how to die frees us from all subjection and constraint.xi
Michel De Montaigne
#87. I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy: it keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
Alan Greenspan
#88. It takes the same effort to think small than to think big. But to think big frees you from the insignificant details.
Jorge Paulo Lemann
#89. I want the shining gravel in a dark brook. I want the sparkle of the stone beneath the rays of sun, I want death that frees me. I could manage to have pleasure if I abstained from thinking. Then I'd feel the ebb and flow of air in my lungs.
Clarice Lispector
#90. Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#91. Love attracts, connects, builds and frees the beauty of humanity. Happy Valentines Day.
Euginia Herlihy
#92. Art frees us from our prejudices and gives us the chance to become our best selves, individuals who dare to dream. And even if those dreams aren't always as pretty as we'd like, or don't conform, or frighten us, it is our duty to encourage art to flourish. All art. Every kind.
M.J. Rose
#93. If you meditate, then the real miracle is the transformation of your awareness field beyond the body. Beyond the body there are oceans of light, continents of light, universes of light. Meditation frees you from this world.
Frederick Lenz
#94. When I was talking to strangers over the Internet in the 1990s, there would be a much more intense connection because they're disembodied, so it's just your brain and your soul interacting with this other person, and it just frees you up in this incredibly empowering way.
Glenn Greenwald
#96. Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.
Mason Cooley
#97. By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction.
Umberto Eco
#98. Grace doesn't cause people to live in sin; it frees them from the paralyzing effects of guilt and condemnation so that they can live holier accidentally now than they ever did on purpose before.
Andrew Wommack
#99. The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.
Stanislav Grof
#100. Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.
Goldie Hawn
