Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Freedom is internal. Another group cannot give you freedom.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Freedom is from within.

I was not going to let people tell me what I'm capable of.

I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.

Regardless of what barriers confront you, it is in your power to free yourselves; you have only to want to.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Yes, you must have the courage of being free.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

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

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don't have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment.

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

Liberation does not come from outside.

Whether or not cutting my hair was the right decision, it empowered me.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Freedom can never be reached by the weak.