Inner Freedom Quotes

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

Viktor Frankl

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

“Show me a man who is not a slave; one is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to hope or fear.”

Seneca

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

“You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.”

Kahlil Gibran

“The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall.”

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

“Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”

Nikos Kazantzakis

“Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.”

Richard Lovelace

“I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.”