Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

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I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I live my life exactly the way I want to. Nothing stops me from going out or being anywhere that I want to be. I am doing whatever I want to do. I do not live my life according to any restrictions whatsoever!

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

I want to live my life, not record it.

Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.

You've never lived till you've flown!

This city belongs to you. Nobody can dictate your beliefs.

Every man is by … natural right, the master of his own thoughts

No man can divest himself … of his liberty

Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.

What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?

I had my freedom and that was nice.

Freedom. I won't let you down.

Freedom is the essence of this faith. It has for its object simply to make men good and wise. Its institutions then should be as flexible as the wants of men. That form out of which the life and suitableness have departed should be as worthless in its eyes as the dead leaves that are falling around us.

To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection.

If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Freedom is the basic concept and construct of life everywhere, because freedom is the basic nature of God. All systems which reduce, restrict, impinge upon or eliminate freedom in any way are systems which work against life itself.