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"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore 
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
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Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The Divine Plan is one of Freedom.
The inherent nature of man is ever seeking
to express itself in terms of freedom,
because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.
- Ernest Holmes
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,
no longer lend your strength to that
which you wish to be free from.
Fill your life with love and bravery,
and you shall live a life uncommon.
- Jewel
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow
Freedom lies in being bold.
- Robert Frost
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
The freedom we are looking for
is the freedom to be ourselves,
to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives
we will see that most of the time
we do things just to please others ...
The worst part is that most of us
are not even aware that we are not free.
- Don Miguel Ruiz
Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you.
Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires.
Love imposes no demands.
Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole."
Love expands beyond the limits of two people.
Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.
- Deepak Chopra in The Path to Love
You can chain me, you can torture me,
you can even destroy this body,
but you will never imprison my mind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Independence of nation begins with independence of self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make,
both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control
the process of choosing, you can take control
of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom
that comes from being in charge of yourself.
- Robert Foster Bennett
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life
in which chance has placed us,
but is always the result of a good conscience,
good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Thomas Jefferson
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side
of every fear is a freedom.
- Marilyn Ferguson
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
Freedom is not procured by a full
enjoyment of what is desired,
but by controlling the desire.
- Epictetus
I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom,
too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.
- Boyd Rice
A big part of financial freedom is having your heart
and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
- Suze Orman
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
- George Washington Carver
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires.
Seek discipline and find your liberty.
- Frank Herbert
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion,
give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn
up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
- James D. Watson
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.
- Stephen Covey
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Those who deny freedom to others
deserve it not for themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
- Friedrich Schiller
We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone.
Freedom is like that. It's like air.
When you have it, you don't notice it.
- Boris Yeltsin
The road to freedom lies not through
mysteries or occult performances,
but through the intelligent use
of natural forces and laws.
- Ernest Holmes
There is no such thing as part freedom.
- Nelson Mandela
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself,
and dies of all others.
- Albert Camus
Whenever men take the law into their own hands,
the loser is the law.
And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
- Robert Kennedy
Everything that is really great and inspiring
is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
- Albert Einstein
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil
is no freedom for the tree.
- Rabindranath Tagore
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in,
and going after your dreams.
- Madonna Ciccone
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise,
we don't believe in it at all.
- Noam Chomsky
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost
my generation to preserve your freedom.
I hope you will make good use of it.
- John Quincy Adams
Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Let freedom reign. The sun never set
on so glorious a human achievement.
- Nelson Mandela
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
- A. J. Liebling
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus
We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom,
do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom
and die the death for freedom.
- Charles G. Adams
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
- Hannah Arendt
137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's
most cherished patriotic observances.
The spirit of this day has not changed -
it remains a day to honor those who died defending
our freedom and democracy.
- Doc Hastings
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
With freedom comes responsibility.
For the person who is unwilling to grow up,
the person who does not want to carry is own weight,
this is a frightening prospect.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We are strange beings, we seem
to go free, but we go in chains -
chains of training, custom, convention,
association, environment -
in a word, Circumstance -
and against these bonds
the strongest of us struggle in vain.
- Mark Twain
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere,
and many of us will have to pass
through the valley of the shadow of death
again and again before we reach
the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela
A just laicism allows religious freedom.
The state does not impose religion but rather gives
space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society,
and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
- Joseph Ratzinger
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.
The obedient must be slaves.
- Henry David Thoreau
The law will never make a man free;
it is men who have got to make the law free.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.
It has the beauty of loneliness of pain:
of strength and freedom.
The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love.
The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
- Benjamin Britten
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