Jacques Cousteau Quotes

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

I feel a kind of permission and freedom in my work that I might not allow myself in my real life.

I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.

I think writing a solo play was the most liberating thing I ever did.

It's nice to finally be my own person.

It's absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.

The way I look at it, love does not necessarily make for a happy ending any more than winning does. What makes for a happy ending is what Addie said all along: freedom. The freedom to be who you are without anybody calling you names. —Bobby Goodspeed

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

Focus on yourself -- do what you want, when you want, without having to consider anyone else's agenda.

If you want to be free, be free, because there's a million things to be.

Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?

I have tried in my way to be free.

There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

Diamonds aren't a girl's best friend. Freedom is.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!

I am not trying to be better than my father. I am not trying to be like him. I am just trying to be myself and express myself how I feel.

I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.