#Freedom

"A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel."

"Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward."

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

"Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom."

"Freely we serveBecause we freely love, as in our willTo love or not; in this we stand or fall."

"What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man."

"Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure."

"You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down."

"There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall."

"I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience."

"O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning!It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time,I will have thousands of globes and all time."

"For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all."

"You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free."

"Don't you miss it?"I say. "Being free."He laughs."

"I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance."

"How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?"

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."

"Choose joyful abundance in your heart and be unbounded, free, and relaxed. Be relentless with your choice and you’ll make your mark."

"Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it."