Frees Us Quotes
45 quotes by 39 authors
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
— Barbara Bush
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Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment of peace. Look around you,…
— Laura Harvey
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It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.
— Joanna Macy
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Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for…
— Melody Beattie
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Before His gaze all falsehood melts away. This encounter with Him, as it burns us, transforms and frees us, allowing us to become truly ourselves...…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.
— Susan Sontag
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There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love…
— Mother Teresa
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Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with…
— Viola Spolin
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The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the…
— Samuel Johnson
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The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us…
— Stanislav Grof
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God reminds us again and again that things between He and us are forever fixed. They are the rendezvous points where God declares to us…
— Tullian Tchividjian
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Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
— Don DeLillo
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There is a greater gift than the trust of others. That is to trust in oneself. Some might call it confidence, others name it faith.…
— Jennifer Worth
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Prayer frees us to be controlled by God. To pray is to change. There is no greater liberating force in the Christian life than prayer.…
— Richard J. Foster
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Commitment, by its nature, frees us from ourselves and, while it stands us in opposition to some, it joins us with others similarly committed. Commitment…
— Michael Lewis
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It is the place of feeling that binds us or frees us.
— Jack Kornfield
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Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may be able to…
— Neel Burton
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It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery.
— Henri de Lubac
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Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral…
— Charles Kingsley
Who Wrote These Frees Us Quotes
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