Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

I've gotten used to not having all the responsibility on my shoulders.

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.

At a certain point, you must be able to slip loose. At a certain point, you found that you had been set free. You could be anyone, he thought. You could be anyone.

I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.

Meditation is the only magic that can help you to be free from the mind, can help you to be free from yourself, your past and all the burden of the past.

Sendak's 1963 classic 'Where The Wild Things Are' has long been a favorite of mine because of the creative imagery, fantastic adventures and, most of all, because of how this timeless story shows us that children need to be free to roam, explore and invent in order to understand their place in the world that surrounds them.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

Freedom can occur only through education.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

I felt really free, like I could do anything, because no one would know what to expect.

Only the educated are free.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’ s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’ s the most revolutionary insight of all.

I feel like I've been known for having long black hair, so when I took all my extensions out and cut my own hair, it was the most freeing thing, I think, I've ever done. That was my 21st year: I cut my hair, I was doing Broadway; I was living in New York, and I was really having a moment of becoming my individual self, and it was amazing.

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.

The weight of the world on my shoulders was something that I had to let go.

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

I don't care what people think anymore. I don't think I've got anything to prove.

Before my transition I felt trapped, and now I've been set free.

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

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.