George Saunders Quotes

Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.

The greatest value comes from loving yourself for who you are. I've been teaching myself this for years, so I hope that by showing what I've learned, others can find the same freedom and joy I have.

I think that we in our family don't need bombs and guns, to destroy to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.

We're flying free like birds in the sky, because we're ALIVE.

Peace is our passion.

Sometimes my day is crammed full of people and talk and yet I have the feeling of living in utter peace and quiet. And the tree outside my window, in the evenings, is a greater experience than all those people put together.

An intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence. To know him as he is, is to come home. To have his life, joy, love, and presence cannot be compared. A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.

When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts.

As our heart soars, we fly with it! Let love take you places!

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

When we give way to joy, we do not feel that we have lost control, but gained freedom.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.

Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it's free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it's at the center of ONE BILLION RISING.

True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear.

My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.

I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.

Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love.

A crystalline moment shatters, and the world is a different place. Where there was confinement, now there is release. Recoiling from my sudden liberation, my left arm flings downcanyon, opening my shoulders to the south, and I fall back against the northern wall of the canyon, my mind is surfing on euphoria. As I stare at the wall where not twelve hours ago I etched “RIP OCT 75 ARON APR 03,” a voice shouts in my head: I AM FREE!

Peace should be our future.

Peace means far more than the opposite of war.

Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.

Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's our time and our life, not theirs. Don't struggle not to be happy. You are." - John Gault