Unshackling Quotes

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

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.

Freedom is Letting Go.

Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.

Opening your hands will set you free.

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.

To become truly free, you must surrender.

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.

Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.

...she could only wait for someone, something, to free her from the invisible chains that bound her.

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.

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

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did.

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others, and considering well what they say. Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating. Gently but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.

Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !

Freedom from something is not freedom.

What I'm trying to do with my work is to break open things that are sealed, that are under siege.

There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.

Anhamirak, abandon and freedom.