Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I want to be intentional about my freedom - in choosing it, honoring it, and protecting it. One of the best feelings I know is feeling truly free.

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

The main thing I believe in is freedom.

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Agency is a divine gift to you. You are free to choose what you will be and what you will do.

I want to have freedom with everything I do.

I have the freedom to choose the roles I want.

People are free to do whatever they want to do.

Just real. I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want. And more importantly, I want to have the freedom to bring everyone else along with me.

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.

He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes; though his preference be determined to stay, by the darkness of the night, or illness of the weather, or want of other lodging.

I live as I choose or I will not live at all.

Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say yes or no, you must choose the response that feels like freedom. Period.

Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it.

The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it.

I want to live life on my own terms.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Freedom is control in your own life.

The audience wants control. They want freedom.