Katharine Lee Bates Quotes

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

I love the ability to transform because that, for me, is a liberation.

Every practice at some point will become a hindrance. No practice can ever take you there, to freedom, to liberation. That's important to realize.

And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.

When God takes your straw, it isn’t because he wants you to remain a slave. It’s because he wants you to take another step toward freedom.

…find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.

And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

It's very liberating to cut your hair.

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

You don't have to fight for your life anymore. You're starting a new one.

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.

I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

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

The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves from situations that are toxic to their essential selves.

I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.

Many of us are experiencing a phase of change, shedding outdated patterns and liberating ourselves from the old by moving on to the new. The year 2012 is an important one for mankind, a pivotal year. The potential for this exists in the mere fact that the majority of us are yearning for change.

I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the closet on their way out.