Freedom is a state of mind
“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.” – Ayn Rand
“It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn’t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn’t often that we laughed — only a little kind of a low chuckle.” – Mark Twain
“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edge of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.” – Margaret Atwood
“Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed — else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.” – Martin Luther King Jr
“Every subject’s duty is the Kings, but every subject’s soul is his own.” – William Shakespeare
“We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness.” – Mark Twain
“They may take away our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!” – William Wallace
“Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.” – Albert Einstein
“I’m a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.” – Jimmy Wales
“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Freedom is a state of mind.” – Anonymous
“If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation.” – Swami Vivekananda
“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.” – Anonymous
“Freedom is not enough.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
“The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.” – Virginia Woolf
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” – Toni Morrison
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine
“The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” – Martin Luther King Jr
“Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.” – Charles Spurgeon
“May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.” – Peter Marshall
“Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.” – Darby Bannard
“You feel like a prisoner if you don’t create. You’re jailed up inside of yourself.” – Edie Brickell
“Transfer from external validation to internal self-validation. Freedom means knowing who you are.” – Miles Patrick Yohnke
“We had mighty good weather as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all — that night, nor the next, nor the next.” – Mark Twain
“Free time is a necessity if you are to exist as an artist.” – Eleanor Blair
“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.” – Virginia Woolf
“Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Nonresistance, non-judgment, and non-attachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Once your mind becomes absolutely still, your intelligence transcends human limitations.” – Jaggi Vasudev
“Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.” – Henry David Thoreau
