Free Us Quotes
40 quotes by 37 authors
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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down,…
— Alain de Botton
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For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and the "self." These…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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That is the essence and mission of 'rebel buddha': to free us from the illusions we create by ourselves, about ourselves, and from those that…
— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
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There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn…
— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
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When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for…
— Oscar Romero
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When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.
— Assata Shakur
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To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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NVC enhances inner communication by helping us translate negative internal messages into feelings and needs. Our ability to distinguish our own feelings and needs and…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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Let none, however difficult the circumstances, consider himself as debarred from the way of holiness. Have we but God and the cross of Christ, we…
— Gerhard Tersteegen
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The mystery of the spiritual life is that Jesus desires to meet us in the seclusion of our own heart, to make his love known…
— Henri Nouwen
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A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory…
— Rollo May
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At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us…
— Steve Wozniak
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Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us…
— Claude Vorilhon
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By means of meditation we can teach our minds to be calm and balanced; within this calmness is a richness and a potential, an inner…
— Tarthang Tulku
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The use of a mere dozen nuclear weapons ... would be a human catastrophe without parallel. ... Because so few weapons can kill so many…
— Jonathan Schell
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Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering,…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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If we go as far as we can into the darkness, regardless of the consequences, I believe a midnight truth will free us from our…
— James W. Douglass
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Jesus' death wasn't to free us from dying, but to free us from the fear of death. Jesus came to liberate us so that we…
— Erwin McManus
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