Louise Hay Quotes

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom.

It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.

I am utterly against any kind of guilt. Remember it always: if you start feeling guilty about something around me, then you are doing it on your own, then you are still carrying the voices of your parents, the priests within you; you have not yet heard me, you have not yet listened to me. I want you to be totally free of all guilt.

I'm feeling pretty good. A lot of people don't know this, but I am not currently in prison, which feels great.

Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

I broke down on Thursday, Nov. 3, and told Sheriff Howard Wells the truth. It wasn't easy, but after the truth was out, I felt like the world was lifted off my shoulders.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Despite the great vision, it is only drop by drop that we squeeze the slave out of ourselves.

… true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul. History tells us that every oppressed class gained true liberation from its masters through its own efforts.

… the best way to aid the human being to emancipate himself is to educate him

I think there's a freedom in freeing yourself of the baggage of ability.

I think coming out, for me, is really about tearing down the prison wall.

While I try to retain the slightly odd perspective and some of the innocence, it's really liberating to be able to talk/rant about all the stuff that bothers me.

It felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders the day I finally finished both verses for 'My Shot.'

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

If you give up the guilt, that's a huge load off your shoulders.

I release all feelings of worry and guilt. Throughout life, the two most futile emotions are guilt for what has been done and worry about what might be done.

One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.

Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.

I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.

The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.