All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I do not choose to be a common person. It is my right to be uncommon-- if I can. I seek opportunity--not… — Dean Alfange Copy Share Image
That's really a part of my nature , it goes along with autonomy and independence of action - it's just that I… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“And by these wonderful circumstances I was once more free again: and I kept my resolution then made, never to fall more… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I think when people have the freedom to tell their own story rather than trying to be specific to a certain design… — Joanna Gaines Copy Share Image
“The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“One thing, and one alone, is necessary for life, justification, and Christian liberty; and that is the most holy word of God,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Properly understood, the marital sacrament is an encumbrance that paradoxically yields freedom. The wife is free to grow old and wrinkled without… — Scott Hahn Copy Share Image
Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Harry's status as orphan gives him a freedom other children can only dream about (guiltily, of course). No child wants to lose… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses,… — M. M. Mangasarian Copy Share Image
Freedom to speak and write about public questions is as important to the life of our government as is the heart to… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Today we are at a crossroads. The technology is available for two great options: The massive surveillance state, or the renewed freedom… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Our vow of chastity is nothing but our undivided love for Christ in chastity, then we proceed to the freedom of poverty-poverty… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
That's the biggest problem existing in this country! People are always mixing up the word free and freedom. Free is something you… — Aaron Tippin Copy Share Image
“Why would I marry? I'm not made to be any man's chattel. I have my work, which I love. I have my… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Yes, yes, but the freedom to speculate is essential-" "No one has tried to deprive you of that. Nor is anyone offended.… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and… — Dale J. Stephens Copy Share Image
“The banishment of the Constitution and republicanism, like the disembowelment of the Declaration of Independence and individualism, has been scrupulous. There is… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
The idea of 'Freedom's Goblin,' to me, leads to a wild conversation. I would hope that father and son, driving home from… — Ty Segall Copy Share Image
“It is not much better to fall honourably in defence of liberty, than be again exposed to the outrages of Romans? Such,… — Queen Boadicea (Marsha Hinds Copy Share Image
You don't just - you often have to defend the freedoms of people you don't like, you know, whose work you don't… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The People will not allow themselves to be changed into hogs by the Circes of Atheism. Their souls will flash indignation against… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“When we are dealing with concepts like freedom and equality, it is essential to use words accurately and in good faith. So… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
I was tired of just kind of being on that express train, whatever you want to call it, so to speak. It… — John Morrison Copy Share Image
The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
For me, there's a bad year of getting started on something. You write bad stuff and it's awkward to throw it out,… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
There is no true liberty for the individual except as he finds it in the liberty of all. There is no true… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,'… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
“The worst possible outlook is indifference that says, “I can’t do anything about it; I’ll just get by.” Behaving like that deprives… — Stéphane Hessel Copy Share Image
At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“Freedom? That’s easy. It’s in your choices. Happiness? That’s easy. It’s in your choices. Respect of your peers? That too is in… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
To me, conservative means believing in a minimum amount of government and a maximum amount of freedom - and keeping government out… — Lyn Nofziger Copy Share Image
“We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
