Lauren Oliver Quotes

Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness

One thing I've learned about life is that if you really let go, it's just a joy ride.

Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly.

To become truly free, you must surrender.

I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

Anhamirak, abandon and freedom.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.

Keep puffing on the bubble until it breaks its confining walls and becomes the sea of joy.

Since there's no more you and me. It's time I let you go so I Can Be Free.

If you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.

My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back.

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.

I think there's a freedom in freeing yourself of the baggage of ability.

It's true that I'm always happy to walk away.

It certainly was an important moment for me, that realization that I was not going to get what I wanted. It was very freeing. I keep using that word "freeing" or "liberating." I feel like Houdini sometimes, like I'm just getting out of one set of shackles after another, hanging upside down inside a burlap bag with handcuffs on. Hopefully one day, I'm going to get out of this tank of water.

Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.

When all the dark clouds roll away And the sun begins to shine I see my freedom from across the way And it comes right in on time Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light And it comes from the sky above Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me And lights my life with love.

Acceptance is the key to be truly free.