Self Freedom Quotes

What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the enterprise of a few individuals, that is brave and practical; but as the enterprise of the State, it is cowardice and imbecility. What odds where we squat, or bow much ground we cover? It is not the soil that we would make free, but men.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they felt more free and at ease themselves. They thought that my action didn't just free blacks but them, too.

It takes a long time to free oneself from chatter - goals, social media, image, persona. And if you're able to move through in that way, you can actually start trying to create from a different place.

All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past hanging around you, with no future projection, you are free from life and death, you are free from body and mind. You are free - simply free - you are freedom.

Truth doesn't have to be liked. It only has to be spoken. Speak it out. The truth may hurt you, but it will set you free.

We have dared to be free. Let us dare to be so by ourselves and for ourselves.

We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary.

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. 'Everything arises and passes away.' When you see this, you are above sorrow. This is the shining way.

If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules.

If one awakens in men the idea of freedom, then the free men will incessantly go on to free themselves…

Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

I try not to think about the expectations of other people because there's always going to be expectations.

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.

As free as you allow others to be, such freedom you create for yourself.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves.

In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.

Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting.

I do know that the key to anything good is feeling relaxed and free. That's the main thing that you can offer yourself as an actor.

Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.

I don't burden myself too much with others' expectations - or even my own expectations. I think your happiness grows in direct proportion to your acceptance, and in inverse proportion to your expectations. It's just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other - or doing the next right thing, so to speak.

PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that.