Nikolai Berdyaev Quotes

What is the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it.

I was brought up with an incredible amount of freedom and creativity.

Those who fear that we are losing our individualism couldn't be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves.

When you are not free, you are not creating; you are being created.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

If you are confident in yourself and however you want yourself to be presented, and you're doing well and doing it because you want to do it and not because someone is pressuring you, then more power to you.

I appreciate individualism.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

I'm going to skate exactly the way I want to, create programs that I like, and everything will fall into place where it is supposed to.

I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And, you know, I do everything that I want. I march to my own drummer. Sometimes people have an issue with that, and I can't control it.

My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Freedom resides within the soul.

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’ s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’ s the most revolutionary insight of all.

I truly believe that to actually be free and to be in place you can create from, you have to be able to be private.

Atlanta has become and has always been a place where you create your own universe.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

I've always loved what I do and I've always done what I wanted to do... in this business you have got to be yourself.

There are stories I wanted to tell, and they are not defined by what I look like.