To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.
I’m just living my life the way I want to. I have the freedom to do that.
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
Freedom is a muscle… you have to exercise it.
The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.
I can’t in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they’re secretly building.
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.
Why is freedom such a hard sell? That’s the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That’s something I never thought would happen here.
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
There’s not a day goes by that I don’t appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend time with my family.
Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.
Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.
The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.
To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It’s freedom.
Jazz stands for freedom. It’s supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don’t be a perfectionist – leave that to the classical musicians.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
