Quotes of: Freedoms Keyword

I love being aroused. I relish that delicious feeling of freedom, the delirium of being naked, and my flesh being born again. It’s like I’m being made new.

Naked and Sexual

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Long Walk to Freedom

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Long Walk to Freedom

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

... I thought with all this freedom and self-discovery and expression of our love stuff that we could finally stop with the whole Zen master wisdom and practical advice crap.

Last Sacrifice

Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife

We take our fetters with us; our freedom is not total: we still turn our gaze towards the things we have left behind; our imagination is full of them.

On Solitude

Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248)

The Second Sex

I cried during my wedding, but my wife did not. That’s natural, because I was losing my freedom, and she was gaining a slave.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

Shaping Things

And what little she allowed herself to say was said in a strained tone, in which her ingrained timidity paralysed her tendency to freedom and audacity of speech.

Swann's Way

Let your will burn in this fire so that it takes you nowhere else. Let your self be burned in this fire of eternity, love and peace. Don't be afraid of this fire, it is love itself. This desire for freedom is the fire of love!

The Truth Is

Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it." ( )

Outside: Selected Writings

The flaw in being civilized is that it permit’s the uncivilized among us to perpetrate horrific crimes against us in the name of freedom and equality. Foreword 'RHG

Right Hand Up to God: No More Will Die

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

A Rosario Castellanos Reader: An Anthology of Her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays and Drama

Remembering to be conscious is the beginning of inner peace and freedom.

Rewiring the Soul: Finding the Possible Self: How Your Connection to Yourself Can Make All the Difference

His body, his mind, his soul, had, for years, served only for the profit of others. He had his own people to whom he was pledged. Three million. They were the currency of his freedom.

TransAtlantic

I hope you don’t mind, but I took the liberty of taking away your freedoms. –Uncle Sam


This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

Jarod Kintz Day—it’s not just my birthday, but it should be a holiday that’s mandatory to celebrate, punishable by death if you don’t. It’ll be a holiday that honors freedom.


This Book Has No Title

One of the most productive ways a government can spend money on the people is by building more prisons. That’s what makes the US so great. That’s what freedom is all about.


This Book Has No Title

What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.

Unless You Become Like This Child