Top 100 True Freedom Quotes
#2. But I didn't really mind it because I knew that it
takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it to know what
true freedom is.
Lana Del Rey
#3. When we become captive to the Word of God, then we discover true freedom.
Alistair Begg
#4. True love does not put a person in a cage like a bird. It gives true freedom to soar.
Debasish Mridha
#5. 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
#6. I would actually love to fly. I think that that would be probably the most exhilarating feeling, and as close as you can get to true freedom.
Ali Larter
#7. A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
Michel De Montaigne
#8. Resherphire: True freedom is not that which is granted by an oppressor. It is a self-evident right, not something that originates from an external force.
Angry Zodd
#9. Freedom is a double-edged ideal, because true freedom comes without the protection of laws that also enslave us by defining us
female, male; Christian, Islamic; good, evil. All at the whim of a frail minority.
Ellen Hopkins
#10. In any situation, the ability to see true beauty gives you true freedom.
Debasish Mridha
#11. True freedom is being able to give up all your rights for another out of love. Just ask Jesus. He willingly came to earth. Willingly lived life for thirty-three years. Willingly let himself be beaten, scourged, and crucified. All for others. All for us.
Jefferson Bethke
#12. That's true freedom for a person. Not money, but time.
Meir Shalev
#13. Do not be afraid to be holy! Have the courage and humility to present yourselves to the world determined to be holy, since full, true freedom is born from holiness.
Pope John Paul II
#14. He knew that even his own father's authority was fragile and restricted - a king did not possess true freedom but was imprisoned by his position.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#16. Books are one thing I love above all else. In a story, I can become anyone, travel any place. In those pages lives my only true freedom.
Sherry D. Ficklin
#17. We have been told that freedom is the ability to pursue petty, trivial desires when true freedom is freedom from these petty, trivial desires.
Russell Brand
#18. True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways.
John Twelve Hawks
#19. ...true freedom is having the right to be a slave.
Paul Beatty
#20. Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch upon which to perch and rest their wings they might even come to resent having those wings. True freedom ... true freedom may be having somewhere to return to.
Kazuya Minekura
#21. True Freedom is freedom of thought & of action. How many of us can claim to be truly free?
Anno Nomius
#22. Turn your wound into wisdom, then help people to find true freedom.
Debasish Mridha
#23. None of us have true freedom because every one of us has to conform.
Debasish Mridha
#24. The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals. To free one's mind of chains is to free it of the care of what is acceptable or viewed so by society, this is when true freedom is discovered.
John Dewey
#25. We can be unhappy about many things, but jy can still be there ... It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy ... It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love.
Henri Nouwen
#26. There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man, and by behaving in conformity with which, man may enjoy his true freedom.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#27. True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.
Meryl Streep
#28. True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.
Jack Canfield
#29. Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are bound to come to the conclusion that science is not antagonistic to religion, but a help to it.
Lord Kelvin
#30. Seek and find the freedom of the spirit, for where there is true freedom, there is peace, and where there is peace, there is love,and it is love that unlocks all doors.
Eileen Caddy
#31. The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.
Matthew Kelly
#32. True freedom is so terrible that only the mad or the divine can face it with open eyes.
Terry Pratchett
#33. We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say "They told me to do it! It's their fault, not mine." The freedom, God help us, to say "I was only following orders."-World War Z
Max Brooks
#34. True freedom consists not in the freedom to sin, but the freedom not to sin.
Billy Graham
#35. I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
Corliss Lamont
#36. The future of modern society depends much more on the quiet heroism of the very few who are inspired by God. These few will greatly enjoy the divine inspiration and will be prepared to stand for the dignity of Man and true freedom and to keep the Law of God, even of it means martyrdom or death.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#37. True Freedom can only exist when one recognizes that their strings have been pulled - and they take action to stand in the light of Truth and own themselves.
Dana Gore
#38. When you will have made him a body without organs,
then you will have delivered him from all his automatic reactions and restored him to his true freedom.
Antonin Artaud
#39. The more we consume, the more we want. And the more we want, the more we have to work to pay for all these things and insure them and then get stressed about them and protect them and get bigger houses. I think true freedom comes with letting go of them.
Mark Boyle
#40. I used to love the storms when I was younger,' Grump said. "I would climb the cypresses and leap into the sky and roar at the thunder. There's nothing like flying into the rain and embracing the wind. It's true freedom.
Aaron Burdett
#41. God created people free, but in order to receive true freedom we have to obey God's rules
Sunday Adelaja
#42. Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
William James
#43. It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
Bryant H. McGill
#44. Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has little room for martyrs. But life is not supposed to be about dying well. It is about living well.
Virginia Postrel
#45. There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.
Charles Kingsley
#47. Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.
John Muir
#48. True freedom is a freedom with clear boundaries. True freedom understands the real essence of do's and don'ts. A freedom without restrictions that brings comfort is a freedom in chains.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#49. Thoughts, words, ideas and information, free from any bonds or restrictions, is the very concrete which pours out a foundation strong enough that upon which a house, stable and lasting, of true freedom and liberty may be built.
Derek R. Audette
#50. To live your life without the need for specific results is true freedom. That is Godliness. That is how God exists.
Manoj Arora
#51. The one and only true freedom we ALL possess is what we think; and our intentions govern what we think.
Bryant McGill
#52. The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.
William Sloane Coffin
#53. I'm very keen on having true freedom of expression. True freedom of faith. And free practice of religious faith.
Mohammed Morsi
#54. It is clear that the flame of True Freedom had passed with naval supremacy and constitutional, consultative government from the United Provinces to Great Britain, where it was regarded with quite as much national pride.
Peter Padfield
#55. I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.
Suzanne Farrell
#56. A thinker can truly think only when there is true freedom of thought.
Debasish Mridha
#57. But if they realize that their true freedom consists in the acceptance of principles, of laws which are the own, a synthesis of universal and particular interests becomes possible.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#58. The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.
Vincent Nichols
#59. True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.
Jonathan Sacks
#61. The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.
Pope Benedict XVI
#62. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and They told me to do it! It's their fault, not mine.
Max Brooks
#63. I feel that true freedom lies within, where I shall never find it.
John S. Hall
#64. The ideal life is you don't sell a single magazine, nobody's interested, but they want to come see your movie. Because that gives you true freedom.
Matt Damon
#65. The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being without anxiety about imperfection.
Tara Brach
#66. This is true freedom: to be capable of leaving ourselves, crossing the boundaries of our little world to open up the universe.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#67. To find true freedom, relinquish all of your attachments.
Debasish Mridha
#69. You do not become a master musician by playing just as you please, by imagining that learning the scales is sheer legalism and bondage! No, true freedom in any area of life is the consequence of regular discipline. It is no less true of the life of prayer.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#70. When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health.
David J. Lieberman
#71. Following Jesus means taking up one's own cross to accompany him on his path, an uncomfortable path that is not one of success or earthly glory, but which leads to true freedom, the freedom from selfishness and sin.
Pope Francis
#72. True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to it.
John Andreas Widtsoe
#73. true freedom was an internal condition not subject to the vagaries of politics. Freedom could not be owned. Therefore, it could not be appropriated.
Tom Robbins
#74. True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.
George Orwell
#75. The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.
Rajneesh
#76. It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety.
Joseph Prince
#77. I experience true freedom when I accept, understand, and move on from the conditioning of the past.
Deepak Chopra
#78. True freedom is in striving through adversities to accomplish all noble things that need to be done so that we may be free from any blame in the end!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#79. True freedom is the choice to create the desires one believes in.
Steven Redhead
#80. True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
James Russell Lowell
#81. The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.
Arthur Middleton
#82. As we turn our backs on the cold night air, I realize that it's moments like this where true freedom lies.
Invisible but palpable, below a sky full of stars, our freedom lies in between a boy who sees a girl, and the girl that feels him.
Truly, deeply, freely.
A.J. Compton
#83. True freedom has more to do with following the North Star than going whichever way the wind blows. Sometimes it seems like freedom is blowing with the winds of the day, but that kind of freedom is really an illusion. It turns your boat in circles. Freedom is sailing toward your dreams.
Mary Pipher
#84. You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.
Don Lemon
#85. True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us
D. A. Carson
#86. The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.
Wendy Beckett
#87. Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it.
Mary Landrieu
#88. True freedom isn't limited by partiality or favoritism for one over the other. It's freedom for all or it isn't freedom at all.
D.M. Anthony
#89. I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.
Josephine Baker
#90. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward
Patricia Sampson
#91. A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.
Michel De Montaigne
#93. True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice.
Steve Hagen
#94. Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.
Louis Sullivan
#95. True Happiness is a state of the mind. Things that we acquire can make us momentarily happy but will not give us true freedom from our unhappiness.
Matthew Donnelly
#96. I have long been aware that when an independent intellectual stands up to an autocratic state, step one toward freedom is often a step into prison. Now I am taking that step; and true freedom is that much nearer.
Liu Xia
#97. True freedom from fear consists of totally resigning one's life into the hands of the Lord.
David Wilkerson
#98. True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.
Bryant H. McGill
#99. True freedom and power only comes when one is free of attachments.
Bryant McGill
#100. True freedom is a mental condition that no one can take or give to you.
Debasish Mridha
