Freedom Quotes

The most fought-for idea in human history, explored by those who won it, lost it, and fought to keep it.

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"When we forgive, we set ourselves free from bitterness."
Rob Bell
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"True freedom is freedom from within."
Henri Nouwen
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"Freedom isn't the absence of responsibility; it's the courage to accept it willingly."
Tony Campolo
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"Real freedom is not doing what you want; it is wanting what you do."
Richard Rohr
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"Freedom without responsibility is merely chaos."
Dominic de Guzmán
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"Freedom flourishes where justice is the foundation."
Dominic de Guzmán
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"Freedom isn't freedom from—it's freedom for something better"
Rob Bell
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"We inherit possibilities and must choose which to pursue"
Rob Bell
R
"Our choices matter more than our circumstances"
Rob Bell
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"The more you own, the more it owns you."
Thomas Merton
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"True freedom is not the ability to do whatever I want, but the ability to want what I truly need."
Thomas Merton
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"The more we own, the more we are owned by our possessions."
Henri Nouwen
H
"We must learn to distinguish between responsibility and guilt."
Henri Nouwen
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"Freedom is the absence of the sense of separation."
Rupert Spira
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"Freedom is freedom from the sense of being a separate individual."
Rupert Spira
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"The monastic life teaches us that less is more, that simplicity is freedom."
Thomas Merton
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"The greatest obstacle to freedom is the belief that we are not free."
Thomas Merton
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"True freedom is found only in submission to truth."
Dominic de Guzmán
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"Freedom and responsibility are two sides of the same coin."
Dominic de Guzmán
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"True freedom is freedom from the self, not freedom for the self."
Richard Rohr
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"I would rather live one day as myself than a lifetime pretending to be someone else."
Barbara Brown Taylor
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"True freedom is not the absence of structure, but the absence of internal resistance to what is."
Adyashanti
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"The paradox is that we are already free."
Adyashanti
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"The biggest prison is the prison of concepts."
Adyashanti
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"Real freedom is freedom from your image of yourself."
Adyashanti
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"Freedom is the willingness to not know."
Adyashanti
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"You are the source of your own liberation."
Adyashanti
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"Real freedom is freedom within structure."
Adyashanti
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"Freedom is your birthright, always available."
Adyashanti
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"Freedom is the recognition that you are not bound by anything."
Rupert Spira