Longing For Freedom Quotes

#1. Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#2. But some things are stronger than years of freedom.
The draw of fire.
A longing for freedom.
Or a girl on a red horse.

Audrey Coulthurst

#3. The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

James A. Forbes

#4. Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!

Paulo Coelho

#5. Women, it is said, have a bad attitude toward sex. Women, it not said often enough, have a long-lived resentment against forced-sex and a longing for freedom.

Andrea Dworkin

#6. The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.

William S. Burroughs

#7. Science is about our passionate conviction that we are placed within a universe that is not simply the result of our imaginings, and our longing and determination to understand it. Ultimately, science is about reality, truth and freedom.

David Smail

#8. You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

Bernadine Dohrn

#9. If you don't want a sarcastic answer, don't ask a stupid question

Colleen Hoover

#10. I want to explore a lot of things, do acting here and there.

Kylie Jenner

#11. Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#12. This is freedom. This is the force of faith. Nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing
is to be pure. What you get is to be changed.

Jorie Graham

#13. As the conceptual, material world increases its hold on us, and inanimate objects become more lifelike, we humans must become more human. Open hearts, kindness and care-these are our most precious gifts.

Sakyong Mipham

#14. Faith, to be faith, must center around something that is not known. Faith, to be faith, must go beyond that for which there is confirming evidence. Faith, to be faith, must go into the unknown. Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness.

Boyd K. Packer

#15. I had heard about Cheers, of course, but I never watched it. So I watched two episodes, and I was like, "Oh my God. This is really good."

David Lee

#16. To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can't save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I've stumbled upon the very freedom I've longed for in the very place I'd least expected it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#17. Freedom - or mukti or moksha - is seen as the natural longing in every human being and our ultimate destination.

Sadhguru

#18. All longings the essence for real liberation only,
Freedom from all sides, an ultimate supremacy;
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Munindra Misra

#19. Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know.

Sue Grafton

#20. As Christians, we needn't be at all ashamed of some impatience, longing, opposition to what is unnatural, and our full share of desire for freedom, earthly happiness, and opportunity for effective work.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#21. All that produces longing in the heart
deprives the heart of freedom.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#22. Who works for glory misses oft the goal;
Who works for money coins his very soul
Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be,
That this thing shall be added unto thee.

Kenyon Cox

#23. I'm not scared of any opponent. I fight who I want to fight.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#24. And what does he want?" I turn and face the serving girl. "The same thing we all want. He just won't admit it." I see longing in her eyes, and also anger, when she looks at Aladdin. "Freedom from the past." I

Jessica Khoury

#25. concept: the universe hears you crying and sings a little song for you. the universe hopes you can hear it

L.J. Buchanan

#26. The shimmering, lucid tones and silver melancholy of I'll Be Right There give readers a South Korea peopled with citizens fighting for honor and intellectual freedom, and longing for love and solace. Kyung-Sook Shin's characters have unforgettable voices-it's no wonder she has so many fans.

Susan Straight

#27. The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering
expresses the great natural potential of mind.

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

#28. We praise the strength, the patience and the longing of the people who did not stop thinking of freedom and democracy in these dark times

Joachim Gauck

#29. I hung a picture of him above my bed and learned by hand the internal workings of the female combustion engine.

Shannon Celebi

#30. There is also a false serenity that is not at all Christian. We need feel no shame as Christians about a measure of impatience, longing, protest against what is unnatural, and a strong measure of desire for freedom and earthly happiness and the capacity to effect change. In

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#31. There was no way to have a civilized conversation with that guy. It's like he was raised by giraffes or something.

H.M. Ward