Top 97 Inner Freedom Quotes
#1. Lenny Breau was a genius - inspired and really loose. I loved how he used the guitar as an extension of his inner freedom, because, obviously, on the outside there were a lot of trainwrecks going on. But when you listen to him play, you hear what kind of guy he really is
Steve Vai
#2. Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.
Michael A. Singer
#4. I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.
Viktor E. Frankl
#5. Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.
Albert Einstein
#6. Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.
Henri Nouwen
#7. It is very hard to stay in touch with our true identity because those who want our money, our time, and our energy profit more from our insecurity and fears than from our inner freedom.
Henri Nouwen
#8. Having everything is just an expression of complete inner freedom.
Deepak Chopra
#9. Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.
Gautama Buddha
#10. What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who is seeking to awaken to their own potentials and possibilities, to the inner freedom, deserves your respect and support.
Frederick Lenz
#11. Inner slavery is even worse than outward slavery; and inner freedom is even better than outward freedom.
Kathryn Lindskoog
#12. Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.
David Simon
#13. There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
Rollo May
#14. Create inner freedom through witnessing. Sannyas is only for the inner freedom. And live out of inner freedom.
Rajneesh
#15. Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.
Albert Einstein
#16. Inner-freedom is less about feeling good and more about learning to develop a healthy and harmonious relationship with the variety of emotional states you're likely to occupy over the course of a lifetime.
T.K. Coleman
#17. Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.
John Lancaster Spalding
#18. To attain true inner freedom, you must be able to objectively watch your problems instead of being lost in them ... Once you've made the commitment to free yourself of the scared person inside, you will notice that there is a clear decision point at which your growth takes place.
Michael A. Singer
#19. External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.
Marlen Haushofer
#20. Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.
Fausto Cercignani
#21. The happy result of detachment is inner freedom, freedom from worry about bodily comfort, honor, and wealth. Considering
Teresa Of Avila
#22. It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
Rollo May
#24. I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#25. I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom.
It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes,
deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#26. Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously.
Thomas Keating
#27. Problems assault us to the degree they preoccupy us. The key to release, rest, and inner freedom is not the elimination of all external difficulties. It is letting go of our pattern of reactions to those difficulties.
Hugh Prather
#28. Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.
Fausto Cercignani
#29. The absurd enlightens me on this point: there is no future.
Henceforth this is the reason for my inner freedom.
Albert Camus
#30. If you have no inner freedom, what kind of freedom do you expect?
Arturo Graf
#31. Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments.
Thomas Merton
#32. What is national freedom if not a people's inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?
Ahad Ha'am
#33. Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.
William James
#34. The book 'Do You!' is about your inner voice. And when you connect to that voice then you - then the freedom comes. And we're only here to be happy. So happy makes money. Money doesn't make happy.
Russell Simmons
#35. We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
Vernon Howard
#37. I was lieing to myself when I thought I was lost, I have never been lost - I just wasn't ready to be found.
Nikki Rowe
#38. I kind of like being single. You're not responsible to tell anyone where you are or who you're with. It's freedom and loneliness, exhilaration and inner calm. You don't have to shave.
Tarryn Fisher
#40. Don't you dare feel guilty for letting those who dim your light, go. Not everyone you meet deserves to be a character in your story.
Nikki Rowe
#41. There is no one who does not feel that he is imprisoned in some way. If this is the result of his own free will he must regard his will as not free, or the circular reasoning in this position would be quite apparent. Free will must lead to freedom.
Foundation For Inner Peace
#42. Freedom, peace, and inner joy will continue to elude us until we become aware of our real truth, without hiding ourselves or being ashamed of what we are.
Lynn Grabhorn
#43. If it gathers dust, give it away ...
Ian Tucker
#44. Our feelings are not there to be cast out or conquered. They're there to be engaged and expressed with imagination and intelligence.
T.K. Coleman
#45. Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#46. Four major existential concerns - death, meaning in life, isolation, and freedom - play a crucial role in the inner life of every human being and
Irvin D. Yalom
#47. Remembering to be conscious is the beginning of inner peace and freedom.
Gabriella Kortsch
#48. Keeping it real" isn't just a matter of facing up to harsh facts. It also includes opening up to the plethora of possibilities that offer us ways of impacting the world in spite of adversity.
T.K. Coleman
#49. You stop revisiting memories when you outgrow the people you made them with.
Nikki Rowe
#50. It takes courage to become authentic. So many talk about the light but not enough speak the truth about the struggles it takes to get there and the tools to overcome it all.
Nikki Rowe
#51. Without order there can be no inner satisfaction. Without inner satisfaction there can be no freedom. Without freedom there is no joy.
Nadia Boulanger
#52. If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.
Paulo Coelho
#53. A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but with a simple, rebellious toss of the head-shaking its mane like an abundance of free-flowing hair-it shows that its inner nature is always wild, translucent and free.
Clarice Lispector
#54. When we allow ourselves to be authentically free, it raises our vibration.
Alaric Hutchinson
#55. They did not know; nor did they know that the negation of everything is in itself a form of servitude and
that real freedom is an inner submission to a value which defies history and its successes.
Albert Camus
#56. The artist can not serve his struggle for freedom unless he subjectively assimilates the social content, unless he feels in his very nerves its meaning and drama and freely seeks to give his own inner world incarnation in his art.
Leon Trotsky
#57. Positive assumptions are needed only when you have negative assumptions that you're trying to overcome. But when you drop your assumptions altogether, your soul stands naked in the open fields of possibility. And what you choose to create from that space is up to you.
T.K. Coleman
#58. The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#59. Emotional versatility is the art of making peace with the entire emotional spectrum by honing your capacity to channel various feelings along creative and constructive lines. It is not about controlling or condemning your feelings. It's about conducting your feelings in a self-edifying way.
T.K. Coleman
#60. He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart.
Karl Marx
#61. Love accepts a human being as she is. Love creates the freedom for a human being to be who she is. Love creates the relaxation, which helps a person to relax into her own inner being, into her own authentic self. Love allows us to appreciate the beautiful being we already are.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#62. Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.
Gloria Steinem
#63. There are free men with the spirit of a slave, and slaves whose spirit is full of freedom. He who is true to his inner self is a free man, while he whose entire life is merely a stage for what is good and beautiful in the eyes of others, is a slave.
Abraham Isaac Kook
#64. True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with the Now is the end of suffering.
Eckhart Tolle
#65. Freedom is the real foundation of happiness.
Nhat Hanh
#66. Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support, the greater it curtails human freedom.
William O. Douglas
#67. If you must have a rule to follow, I would suggest cultivating a dialogue with your inner voice ... If you listen to the clues your own images offer, the resulting work will be fresh, and authentic. Fall in love with your world ...
Jane Fulton Alt
#69. By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain.
Hal Elrod
#70. Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves
Friedrich Nietzsche
#71. The right to express out thoughts, however, means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own; freedom from external authority is a lasting gain only if the inner psychological conditions are such that we are able to establish our own individuality.
Erich Fromm
#73. When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in motion, we sense the message ... that our inner self has begun its search for freedom.
Mary Meeker
#74. The chaos doesn't end, you kinda' just become the calm.
Nikki Rowe
#75. Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
Laozi
#76. The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing the inner man and woman is to discover our inner roots and wings.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#77. No one can accomplish the inner release of another person. Freedom can be offered but it must also be accepted in order for it to 'take.
Frances G. Wickes
#78. We nurture our creativity when we release our inner child. Let it run and roam free. It will take you on a brighter journey.
Serina Hartwell
#79. Selflessness implies fun. Its fun to be free. Freedom is inner stillness and not being haunted by your desires, your fears, your aggressive tendencies ... it's being cool.
Frederick Lenz
#80. Mental and emotional freedom is not the denial of truth - it's the recognition that truth isn't something we need to run from or be afraid of.
T.K. Coleman
#81. Soul Mountain, the story of one man's quest for inner peace and freedom.
Gao Xingjian
#82. It doesn't work to have loads of money if your inner spiritual life is a desert, if you have no freedom beyond chasing more and more cash. Quality of life is as vital as heaps of money.
Stuart Wilde
#83. It is only through inner peace that we can have true outer freedom.
Sri Chinmoy
#84. Freedom will remain elusive as long as there remains a 'self' to be freed.
Darryl Diptee
#85. But as long as he kept on caring, nothing could touch the freedom of his inner thoughts.
Sylvia Engdahl
#86. The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.
Mircea Eliade
#88. self-education is the education of your inner infinite creative resources and essential to get if you want to live a life of freedom, abundance and fulfillment.
Deepak Burfiwala
#89. Freedom of inner thought bears sanctuary mind.
Imagination's sight will never bare you blind~
Lisa Moreno
#90. In the scriptures, 'peace' means either freedom from strife, contention, conflict, or war, or an inner calm and comfort born of the Spirit that is a gift of God to all of his children, an assurance and serenity within a person's heart.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#91. Happiness is like a genre of music that nearly everyone knows how to dance to. Happiness has a very simple tempo, catchy phrasing, and memorable lyrics. It's the song at the wedding that makes everyone excited to run to the dance floor.
T.K. Coleman
#92. Wild woman are an unexplainable spark of life. They ooze freedom and seek awareness, they belong to nobody but themselves yet give a piece of who they are to everyone they meet.
If you have met one, hold on to her, she'll allow you into her chaos but she'll also show you her magic.
Nikki Rowe
#93. Joshua chose the simple life ... because it gave him the freedom to expand the breadth of his inner life.
Joseph Girzone
#95. You can give illness to her body but you can't take the gypsy out of that girl.
Nikki Rowe
#96. Give as you wish to live, it all come's back to you. And that's without exception ...
Ian Tucker
#97. Made from divinity must mean mindstate to create is intrinsic - no fiction. Stop playin' with your power, your inner 'G', and build on purpose - accordingly. Being free is for free, so force the issue.
T.F. Hodge
