Freedom Quote by Karen Swallow Prior

“A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. A…

— Henry Steele Commager

“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives we will…

— Miguel Ruiz

“What is freedom when you're too beholden to act spontaneously”

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

“Abiding in the space of the nature of mind, we not only are free, we are freedom.”

— Tenzin Wangyal

“Ironically, we were learning that we had to be “free,” but learning to be free meant conforming to the values of the dominant style.”

— John Seed

“We can reach untainted experiential freedom, by living in the moment as it is—without contemplation. Here we find the possibility of freedom—of just being—living…

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

“We can be free only through the application of reason, valuing our togetherness and cultivating our minds to find inspiration in everything that we…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must perceive appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“We are only as beautiful as we allow ourselves to be, our outsides and insides can sparkle just the same. We are allowed to…

— Marissa Jo Barner

“A truly free man is not free 'from' anything, nor free 'to' anything, he is just free. Free within himself.”

— Ilyas Kassam