Breaking Free Quotes

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

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.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world--and never will.

At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone.

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

When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.

We have to get past this persistent negativity. The negativity has held Rhode Island back for a long time.

It's like, 'You're not allowed to change. That's not fair. We like you like this.' But I don't. So let me expand and express myself.

The past has nothing more to teach us. Then why not let it be …. We must look ahead …. Unless we learn to forget, we will be turned into a pillar of salt.

I stuck around in Hollywood for too long. I was there a long time, and when I left, I was smart enough to realise that what I was leaving was not just the movie business. I wanted to get rid of the whole atmosphere.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

I had to fight hard for everything. I wanted to get out. I want to take my destiny into my own hands and escape the vicious cycle of retaliatory violence. This struggle has shaped who I am to this day.

Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose.

Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.

I had been with a guy for seven years and I was done with that. I wanted to reinvent my whole life and change my hair - I'd had brown, straight extensions forever - and I just wanted to get rid of that, to shed skin, and really just be independent.

If you want to be free be free

Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

The Internet is one area that I have used pretty effectively to break free of corporate control.