Anton Chekhov Quotes

Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.

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

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.

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

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

Words mean little unless you realize the truth of it yourself. And when you do, you'll be free at last.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

Sometimes it takes courage and experience to allow yourself to actually go into being someone that you're not, and it's the most liberating thing to let go. I do think that's why I love acting - it's being someone that you're not. And sometimes you're really scared of it, and then once you let yourself go there, it's the best thing ever.

You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah

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

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

Getting to be authentic is so liberating.

If you stop trying to restrict yourself by defining yourself and love in other people's terms, it's the most liberating thing.